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Nearly 80 family members of 9/11 victims urge President Joe Biden to reverse his order and send back billions in Afghanistan’s U.S.-held frozen assets.

In another sampling of reaction, readers offer analyses of past and present mistakes. May 17, 2021, 1:41 p.m. ET Image A residential building in Ashdod in southern Israel on Monday after it was hit by rockets fired from the Gaza Strip.Credit...Dan Balilty for The New York Times Image A building in Gaza City collapsed, killing more than 40 people, after an airstrike that Israel said was targeted at military tunnels beneath.Credit...Hosam Salem for The New York Times To the Editor: Bret Stephens ...

Clashing Views on Israel and Gaza The new violence between Israel and the Palestinians has prompted an outpouring of responses to news and opinion articles. Here is a sampling. May 13, 2021, 3:15 p.m. ET Image Image To the Editor: The conflagration now raging on both sides of the Israel-Gaza border, which has now spilled into the streets of Israeli cities, expanding into what is fast becoming an Arab-Jewish civil war, runs the risk of becoming a much wider conflict. Confrontations in this regio...

After hundreds of rockets from the Gaza Strip targeted central Israel on Tuesday night, killing three more Israeli civilians, IDF... Similarly, the column frames the aid issue as a rhetorical question: “as American taxpayers, we don’t have much influence over Hamas, while we do have influence over Israel and we provide several billion dollars a year in military assistance to a rich country and thus subsidize bombings of Palestinians. Is that really a better use of our taxes than, say, payin...

A country had satisfied those requirements around corruption and the department of defense released that report. nowhere between the time that donald trump withheld aid and the time that he released that aid was there an additional assessment required or done. in fact, the department of defense decided they didnt need to do another assessment because they had already done the assessment. so at the end of the day i have only two questions for my colleagues on the other side and these are the two ...

Allowed the invasion by turkey intoen areas that the u.s. had a foot hold in with our kurdish allies. >> also, congress voted for that aid. the president held it up. >> the only reason he released it -- >> there was a new election and they got a clean bill of health. that was the time line of actually what happened. >> the key thing is that you called it policy. which it was. you can disagree with it, say it was wrong. ambassador taylor agreed wit and thought it was wrong. it was not extortion. ...

Of what youre taking on? >> i wouldnt even say he was in charge of something. i mean, john kerry made this point to the ukrainians. the president of the united states, barack obama, was in charge of this policy. >> but they made biden the point person. >> a point person. >> how many point people can you have? >> we had our ambassador, the secretary of state. we had every single official working on ukraine -- >> joe biden brags hes the one that held the money over their head and thats why he did ...

Charge of this policy. >> but they made biden the point person. >> a point person. >> how many point people can you have? >> we had our ambassador, the secretary of state. we had every single official working on ukraine -- >> joe biden brags hes the one that held the money over their head and thats why he did it. >> we did and it was successful. it was the right policy because we did condition aid, absolutely, on ukraine actually doing something about corruption because we wanted to make sure th...