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Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US correspondent based in New York Then-US vice president Joseph Biden, left, walks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, ahead of their meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah on March 10, 2010. (AP/Tara Todras-Whitehill/File) Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday urged the Biden administration to revoke a US law that deems the Palestinian Liberation Organization and its affiliates a terror group. In a video address to the national conference of the left-wing, pro-Israel J Street lobby, Abbas said he looked forward to “...

Modern Israel celebrates its 73rd birthday this week. Let me put my cards on the table: I’m not dispassionate when... According to Blinken, “US foreign assistance for the Palestinian people serves important US  interests and values. It provides critical relief to those in great need, fosters economic development, and supports Israeli-Palestinian understanding, security coordination and stability.” That sounds very high-minded. Blinken also made clear that he believes that these allocations won’t violate the Taylor Force Act since none of the money will go directly to the PA Instead, ...

Media Get Behind Idea of Two-States Leading to Democracy for Palestinians By contrast, media outlets were consumed by the recent decision of the Middle East Quartet – comprised of representatives from the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations – to convene for the first time since 2018 in order to discuss ways to renew “meaningful negotiations” between Israel and the Palestinians. Concurrently, it was widely reported that the White House intends to begin ramping up economic assistance to the PA; this, after former president Donald Trump cut off nearly all a...

The first objection is most familiar, having been employed to defend Trump in his second impeachment trial. Recognizing the manifest weakness of the procedural point that Trump could not be tried by the Senate because he had left office, senators claimed he should be acquitted because he was exercising the right to speak freely when he addressed supporters on Jan. 6. Similar claims will surely be made in court. But Swalwell’s federal claims implicate no First Amendment rights at all. They seek no damages for anyone’s speech but invoke it only as constitutionally unprotected evidence that ...

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