Biden’s push for restoring aid to Palestinians faces legal hurdles and brewing political crisis
Biden’s push for restoring aid to Palestinians faces legal hurdles and brewing political crisis
Not only are there plans to restart funding for UNRWA, but the new administration is pushing more fiscal aid and a return to the negotiating table as the Palestinians head for elections in May.
(April 7, 2021 / JNS) In recent days, the Biden administration has moved rapidly to restore funding to the Palestinians that had been largely severed during the Trump administration.
Concerns are being raised, however, that the funding could both violate existing U.S. law, while also rewarding bad behavior by the Palestinian leadership through their continued support of terrorism, their targeting Israel in international forums such as the International Criminal Court, and perhaps most importantly in terms of optics, their refusal to even sit down with Israelis or Americans and engage in the peace
Pentagon to study land mine rules that Biden promised to reverse Follow Us
Question of the Day This March 27, 2008, file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. Defense officials say the Pentagon will sweep away Trump-era policies that largely banned transgender people from serving in the military and will issue new rules that broaden their access . more > By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times - Wednesday, April 7, 2021
The Pentagon is keeping for now a Trump administration policy that loosened restrictions on the use of land mines by the U.S. military, as the Biden administration weighs whether to re-impose tougher rules.
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J. G. Amato is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Stanford University, writing a dissertation on religion and politics in sixteenth-century Florence. He has been awarded grants and fellowships from the US Fulbright Commission, the Embassy of Switzerland in Washington, DC, Stanford University, and the University of Notre Dame. He holds degrees from City College of San Francisco, the University of California, Berkeley, Westminster Seminary California, and Stanford University.
William Bock is an incoming J.D. candidate at the University of Michigan Law School. He served as the Director of Research & Project Manager for the White House Office of Speechwriting and before that was a Research Associate in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel for President Donald J. Trump. Bock obtained his Bachelor’s Degree from Patrick Henry College, graduating summa cum laude and double majoring in American Politics & Policy and Strategic Intelligence.
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Turkey has spent millions of dollars on sometimes bizarre campaigns to dissuade the American government from calling the murder and expulsion of the vast majority of the Armenians in Anatolia during World War One a genocide.
For decades, the United States government has tiptoed around the issue, afraid of the fallout it could precipitate in U.S.-Turkish relations.
Ultimately, all this money and effort appears to have been a waste. At the end of 2019, the United States Congress and Senate passed a resolution to officially “(1) commemorate the Armenian Genocide, the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923; (2) reject efforts to associate the U.S. government with efforts to deny the existence of the Armenian Genocide or any genocide; and (3) encourage education and public understanding about the Armenian Genocide.”
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