Adam Milstein
Philanthropist, Co-Founder of Israeli-American Council and Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses supporters on stage after polls closed in the Israeli Parliamentary election on March 42, 2021 in Jerusalem, Israel. Amir Levy / Getty Images
Key Takeaways
On several crucial issues, including this vital relationship, the administration does not appear to be of one mind. We must wait and see which officials dominate.
Biden has fervently backed Israel and firmly rejected the antisemitic movement to boycott the country.
Anyone who thinks it is a situation that is likely to lead to a more stable and prosperous Middle East in the near term is sadly mistaken.
Portrait of a Siege
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Jehad al-Saftawi has spent years photographing the gruesome human toll of the war in Gaza, but some of the most searing images gathered in his new book are everyday encounters that the photographer captured in his wanderings through the city. One image in My Gaza: A City in Photographs shows a boy in a classroom smiling into the camera while his classmates laugh at their desks in the background. The peaceful scene is marred by the long scar stretching across the child’s face, the trace of an Israeli bomb attack that killed 48 members of his family in 2008. In another, a young boy bikes past the bright blue front door of someone’s house, which still stands on its hinges even though the building it once opened into has been reduced to rubble. Al-Saftawi’s photographs, like the landscape of the city, are indelibly marked by brutality, even when the violence
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By S. T. Patrick
“I don’t want to die. . . . Please don’t let me die,” were the final words of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 2013. Shortly after his death, the Venezuelan presidential guard confirmed the cause of death as a heart attack after a lengthy battle with colon cancer. The state funeral had barely come to a close, however, when rumors of assassination began spreading among Venezuelan diplomats. How close were those rumors to reality? There is real evidence that Chavez was murdered.
Nicolas Maduro, who served as vice president under Chavez, publicly commented on the allegations of assassination as Chavez suffered through his waning days.
AMMAN: Despite calls from the international community for an end to the hostilities between Israeli security forces and Palestinians, clashes continued in Jerusalem on Monday, with violence erupting at Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest site, for the second day in a row.
Over 300 people have reportedly been injured, with the Red Crescent saying half a dozen Palestinians are in a critical condition.
On Friday, May 7, US State Department spokesman Ned Price called on both sides to show restraint, saying Washington was “extremely concerned about ongoing confrontations in Jerusalem, including on the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount and in Sheikh Jarrah,” condemning an attack on Israeli soldiers and “reciprocal attacks on Palestinians.”
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