U.S. lawmakers call for Haiti-led transition, support claim Moïse s presidency ends Sunday Jacqueline Charles, The Miami Herald
Feb. 7 A group of U.S. lawmakers including Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the powerful president pro tempore of the Senate, is calling on the Biden administration to wash its hands of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and back a transition government to run Haiti.
Seven lawmakers made their positions known in a letter to recently confirmed Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, while Leahy tweeted his position, which he later elaborated on to the Miami Herald. The members of Congress, like some Haitians, contend that Moïse s presidential term ends Sunday, according to the Haitian constitution.
The insane repetition of failure
The insane repetition of failure
Until the Palestinians understand that the conflict is over and that they have lost, nothing is possible. History has amply demonstrated this.
(February 4, 2021 / JNS) Using Einstein’s definition of insanity as it relates to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been so overused to the point of being trite. Unfortunately, this doesn’t make it any less true.
Over the past few weeks, we have witnessed the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden resurrect the careers of all manner of officials with a long and storied history of failure in resolving the conflict.
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A Palestinian pupil walks past United Nations Relief and Works Agency, (UNRWA) and USAID humanitarian aid, on June 6, 2010 in the Shatie refugee camp in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)
A US State Department spokesman said Tuesday that the previous administration’s slashing of aid to the Palestinians had failed to produce results and reiterated the new American leadership’s intention to restore such financial assistance.
“The suspension of aid to the Palestinian people has neither produced political progress, nor secured concessions from the Palestinian leadership. It has only harmed innocent Palestinians,” Ned Price said at a press briefing.
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Palestinian Chairman Mahmoud Abbas arrives at a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah, May 7, 2020. (Flash90)
The United States plans to resume financial aid to the Palestinian Authority, having determined that the decision by the Trump administration to slash it has failed to produce the desired results and was therefore ineffective, a State Department official said Tuesday.
Prior to former President Donald Trump’s 2018 decision to cut aid to the Palestinian Authority over their refusal to engage with its peace efforts, the U.S. was the PA’s single largest donor country and also gave hundreds of millions of dollars in annual funding to the United Nations Works and Relief Agency, which handles Palestinian refugees and their descendants across the Middle East.