Trump to appoint six to US Holocaust Memorial Council
December 18, 2020
(JNS) U.S. President Donald Trump announced his intention to appoint six individuals to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council.
Those named to the council, which is the governing body of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., include David Marchick, who served as the Deputy U.S. Assistant Secretary of State in the Clinton administration; Republican strategist Jeffrey Miller, founder and CEO of Miller Strategies; U.S. International Development Finance Corporation CEO Adam S. Boehler; Miami Beach investor Jimmy Resnick; former U.S. Housing and Urban Development General Deput.
Tenders for the sale of the dormant Hellenic Shipyards attracted just a single bid, and it is modest.
The only offer for Greece’s largest historical shipyard came from Pyletech Shipyards, led by Greek shipping investor Theophilos Priovolos, which offered EUR15.1m ($18.4m) for the Skaramanga-based yard.
Considerable interest had been expressed in the yard by potential Greek, European and US buyers as the government said its relaunching would play a major role in the overhaul of the country’s defense industry while boosting the country s defense capabilities, amid rising tension between Greece and Turkey over offshore gas resources in the eastern Mediterranean.
Kushner Leaves to Israel, Morocco After Normalization Deals Published December 17th, 2020 - 11:34 GMT
In this file photo taken on August 31, 2020 US Presidential Adviser Jared Kushner speaks in front of an air-plane of El Al at the Abu Dhabi airport, following the arrival of the the first-ever commercial flight from Israel to the UAE. KARIM SAHIB / AFP
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The American delegation, headed by Kushner, will take the first direct commercial flight from Tel Aviv to Rabat as a sign of progress after the Israel-Morocco deal that Kushner helped broker, the official said.
Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’ s son-in-law and adviser, will visit Israel and Morocco next week to discuss the normalisation of ties between the two countries, a US official said Tuesday.
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White House senior adviser Jared Kushner on Monday will reportedly head a US delegation to Israel and then Morocco in order to devise ways to implement normalization between the latter two countries. The news comes exactly a week after President Donald Trump announced that Rabat had agreed to forge official diplomatic relations with Jerusalem.
Morocco is the fourth Arab nation in as many months to do so under the banner of the Abraham Accords, following in footsteps of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan.
In a parallel process, Bhutan on Saturday also agreed to formalize ties with the Jewish state.
China has embarked on a grand journey west. Officials in Beijing are driven by aspirations of leadership across their home continent of Asia, feelings of being hemmed in on their eastern flank by U.S. alliances, and their perception that opportunities await across Eurasia and the Indian Ocean. Along the way, their first stop is South Asia, which this report defines as comprising eight countries Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka along with the Indian Ocean (particularly the eastern portions but with implications for its entirety). China’s ties to the region are long-standing and date back well before the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949.