Biden donors, friends, and former aides expected on first slate of high-profile ambassadors
By Tyler Pager and Anne Gearan The Washington Post,Updated April 27, 2021, 2 hours ago
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President Biden spoke about COVID-19 vaccinations, in the Eisenhower Executive Office building at the White House complex in Washington on Wednesday, April 21, 2021.Al Drago/NYT
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden is expected to begin naming his choices for high-profile ambassador postings in May or possibly as soon as this week, several people familiar with White House plans said, revealing winners among a pecking order of Biden friends, donors and aides that spans decades.
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Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas seems ready to delay next month’s scheduled elections at a meeting on Thursday with PLO and other leaders. The formal election campaign is otherwise scheduled to start on Friday.
The stated reason: Abbas is saying that Israel will not allow Palestinians living in Jerusalem to vote in the upcoming legislative elections. No Jerusalem, no elections. Israel has not made a public statement on Jerusalem voting one way or the other but is privately saying it will not interfere in the elections.
The real reason: Abbas had envisioned the elections as a means to unify Palestinian factions under his leadership. His Fatah party lost elections to Hamas in 2006, and the Islamic Resistance Party has ruled there since. The trends in the pre-election polling and politicking so far have presented Abbas with an awful, if not worst case, scenario: that Hamas would gain in the West Bank where Fatah rules, and that splits within the Fatah coalition,
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