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Biden’s ‘open door’ to the Palestinian Authority David Pollock and Sander Gerber April 26, 2021 23:37 Joe Biden and Mahmoud Abbas. (Reuters) Short Url https://arab.news/vm8g3 The Biden administration is contemplating reopening the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) mission in Washington and restoring direct aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA), both previously shut down by the Trump administration. However, instead of diving headfirst into another diplomatic dead-end with the PA/P...

In a rare public statement on a political appointment, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs called out misleading allegations of antisemitism leveled against Kristen Clarke, President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. In a letter sent to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this week, the Jewish umbrella group urged the Senate to consider her nomination based on her record of fighting antisemitism and promoting civil rights. Clar...

Andrew Yang promised he would not take action on secular education in yeshivas. Eric Adams visited a Brooklyn yeshiva to learn about how it teaches science, math and English. Ray McGuire hosted a roundtable with rabbis in which he boasted about his comfort level praying at the Western Wall. These are just a few examples of the pointed outreach that leading candidates in the race for mayor of New York have been making to court the city’s Orthodox Jews, which historically have been an influenti...

In the fifth  in a series of TRANSITION 2021 memos examining the Middle East and North Africa, Michael Eisenstadt and David Pollock assess the multifaceted strengths of the U.S.-Israel partnership and its prospects for growth under the Biden administration. Areas for especially timely cooperation include climate resilience, agtech, and medical research, as well as longstanding work in the military and security arenas. Israel’s recent normalization deals with several Arab states only further ...

IRBIL, IRAQI KURDISTAN: With the evidence available, independent analysts are hesitant to pin the blame on any specific group for Monday’s rocket strike on Irbil in Iraqi Kurdistan. But what they all agree on is that both the timing and nature of the attack, which principally targeted a base in the city’s airport hosting US military personnel, strongly suggest that it was the handiwork of one or more Iran-backed militias. According to reports, a volley of approximately 14 rockets hit Irbil...

Who Attacked Iraqs Irbil Airport? Published February 17th, 2021 - 06:30 GMT Shattered glass is pictured on the floor of a shop following a rocket attack in Arbil, the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region, on February 15, 2021. A volley of rockets targeted the Kurdish regional capital in northern Iraq late today, authorities said, as security sources confirmed that at least one hit a military complex hosting US-led coalition troops. SAFIN HAMED / AFP Highlights Fingers p...

Modern Diplomacy If the 2010s were a decade of defiance and dissent, the 2020s promise to make mass anti-government protests a fixture of the greater Middle East’s political landscape. Protests in the coming decade are likely to be fuelled by the challenges Middle Eastern states face in enacting economic and social reforms as well as reducing their dependence on energy exports against the backdrop of a global economic crisis and depressed oil prices and energy markets. Complicating the challe...

By Michael S. Miller and Eric S. Goldstein | January 21, 2021 Confronted with the challenges of our lifetime, we owe Chuck Schumer our gratitude. It was a year ago. The Jewish community had barely passed the commemoration of the first anniversary of the Tree of Life massacre, and suddenly we were again reeling after brazen and deadly anti-Semitic attacks in Poway, California; Monsey; and Jersey City. Further inflaming fear and sowing hate were a series of violent anti-Semitic att...

by Andrew Welsh, David Pollock, Rob Adams December 22 2020, 10.00am © Shutterstock / Ollyy From a mondegreen in a record shop to a panto reviewer’s Christmas and working in a home for wounded ex-service personnel, at the end of a difficult year, Andrew Welsh, Rob Adams and David Pollock look back on a working during Christmases past. THE PANTO REVIEWER’S CHRISTMAS by DAVID POLLOCK As someone who’s lucky enough to review theatrical Christmas shows across Scotland throughout the mon...

 Posted By Ruth King on December 16th, 2020  The Abraham Accords, the term given to the series of agreements reached last summer allowing normal relations between Israel and several of her Arab-Muslim neighbors, including the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and now Morocco, were greeted with optimism and approval by the Trump administration. “Everybody who joined the Abraham Accords will see the benefits for their own people,” declared US Secret...