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A diplomat, a lawyer, and an entrepreneur by the age of 35, Alexander Djerassi was born and raised in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. He grew up surrounded by nature but with a family history deeply affected by war and tragedy overseas. Both grandfathers were Jews forced to flee Central Europe in the face of the Nazi onslaught in the 1930s. His grandmother, whose Huguenot ancestors faced religious persecution in France, became a respected scholar of the Holocaust and of Jewish-Christian relations.
After reshuffling, Israel could create ‘opportunities’ for regional military cooperation February 8 An Israeli F-35 fighter jet performs during an air show at the graduation ceremony of Israeli pilots. (Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images) WASHINGTON The Trump administration’s decision to move military responsibility for Israel from U.S. European Command to U.S. Central Command will help work toward a collective approach to security in a region where America’s main allies have traditionally been in conflict. That’s the read from Marine Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the head of CENTCOM, who said Monday that “bureaucratically, it’s just the thing that makes it a little easier to work those relationships.”
Then Vice President Joe Biden meets with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, March 9, 2016.
Baruch Yedid recently reported that the Biden administration and the Palestinian Authority discussed the challenges of reopening the PLO mission in Washington. The article reports the following: “PA Minister of Civilian Affairs Hussein A-Sheikh spoke on Monday night with Hady Amr, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs within the US State Department.” The article related the hardship the Palestinians are having in reopening their mission due to a lawsuit of which I am a plaintiff. The article purports that if the PLO mission is opened, then the Palestinian Authority would be on the hook for $650 million for the seven terror attacks in which they were found guilty by a New York jury in 2015. The rub is that they are already “at home” by virtue of their continuing payments to terrorists who have harmed Amer