Host good afternoon, everybody. Thank you all for joining us today. Of the way, if we could silence all cell phones, especially with the tv crews. Director hereive at the Jerusalem Fund and palestine center. On behalf of our board of directors and staff, its a pleasure to welcome you all here today, including everyone watching online on our livestream. Its also an honor to introduce and welcome our distinguished speaker, ambassador husam zomlot , who will be speaking about the latest developments and next steps for palestinians on the political and diplomatic fronts. As we all know President Trump recently announced a decision to recognize jerusalem as the undivided capital of israel. Along with plans to move the u. S. Embassy into jerusalem, this is a major change in u. S. Official policy, and with jerusalem being such a core issue for palestinians this move has severe implications for future peace negotiations and for any u. S. Role in such stocks. The Trump Administration also recen
Communicate expectations while to me and my peers, they have the ability to plant seeds for the future. You can watch this entire Program Online at cspan. Org. Type in Reagan National defense foreign in the search bar on the home page. We will go live now to hear from the general delegation of the plo to the United States talking about palestinians and u. S. Foreign policy. Live coverage on cspan2. I welcome you all here today including everyone watching on our live stream. Its also an honor to introduce and welcome our distinguished speaker, ambassador zomlot who will be speaking about the latest developments and steps for palestinians on the diplomatic and palate and inference. As we know, President Trump recently announced his decision to recognize jerusalem as the undivided capital of israel along with plans to move the u. S. Industry into jerusalem. This is a major change in official u. S. Policy and with jerusalem being such a core issue for palestinians, and this has severe impl
Good afternoon everybody. Thank you for joining us today. If we c all cell phones, especially with the tv crews here. Director heretive at the Jerusalem Fund and palestine center. On behalf of our board of directors and staff, it is a pleasure to welcome you all here today. Including everyone watching online on our livestream. It is an honor to introduce and welcome our distinguished the investor. He will be speaking about the latest developments and at next steps for palestinians on the political and diplomatic fronts. Trump recently announced his decision to recognize jerusalem as the undivided capital of israel. He also plans to move the u. S. Embassy into jerusalem. This is a major change in official u. S. Policy. With a jerusalem being such a core issue for palestinians, this move has severe implications for future peace negotiations and for any u. S. Role in such talks. The Trump Administration recently made the unprecedented step of withholding millions of dollars in humanitaria
Categorize it that way. If and when we reached out to talk to other National Associations, other federations, once again, we were one of 41 and one of 35 voting members and there really werent anybody else there wasnt anybody else that had the same maybe the same feeling that i did on a personal level or that we did as an organize. So we operated as best we could within the framework. Once again, were in concacaf by virtue of being a member of fifa and we felt we had to find a way to participate, work our way through and fortunate enough by a close vote, 1817, mr. Gillatty was elected in april of 13 and we think that was a step in the right direction, a step towards reform and that is the model that we felt was in the best interest of moving our sport forward in a very difficult and tricky environment sometimes. I have one final question and then ill wrap up here. Back on womens soccer here on a happier note, the most watched soccer match in u. S. History, as Many Television viewers as
The judge set a money there. If you compose the money belt you get out of custody. Because if that risk that you post suddenly evaporates simply because you posted money belt, and so for that reason, increasingly theres an interest in moving away from that. Our district atty. Shares our interest in coming up with risk factors that would be more equitable and more appropriate to consider at the time. Deciding whether or not someone should remain in custody. Of course, one of the unfortunate things is that even in a city like San Francisco we are seeing a very disproportionate impact on certain communities of color. So, there are some very successful bail reform models that are occurring right now in other places. Washington dc has a very Aggressive Program that tries to release virtually everyone that gets arrested except for the very few individuals that pose a safety risk, and new york city has been exterminating now with some different programs. The impact on africanamericans, there