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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, the first Biden administration official to visit Israel, said the U.S.-Israel relationship was "enduring and ironclad," amid growing Israeli concern at the American efforts to revive the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal.

Seventy years after its founding with an 18-month mandate to provide emergency aid to the “Palestine refugees,” the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has grown into a gargantuan $1.2 billion, 30,000-strong “phantom sovereignty”[1] that has done more than any other international actor to perpetuate the “refugee problem” it was established to solve. With the Trump administration slashing its donation to the agency, and the Gulf s...