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Opinion It’s Time To Admit That The US Is Signing The Checks For Greater Israel
As part of their alleged plan for the Middle East, the Trump administration held what they called an economic “workshop” in Manama. It was an utter failure. The plan presented was nothing more than a real-estate brochure, and its revelation in Bahrain a poorly attended affair. What Trump’s team, led by his son-in-law Jared Kushner,…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Authority Arrests, Releases Businessman Who Attended Peace Summit
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Palestinian Authority arrested and released the next day a Palestinian businessman from the West Bank city of Hebron who attended the United States-sponsored economic summit in Bahrain. Saleh Abu Mayala was arrested on Friday night upon his return home from Bahrain by Palestinian intelligence forces and released by Saturday night, according…
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Fast Forward Kushner Launches Bahrain Workshop For Israeli-Palestinian Economic Peace Plan
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jared Kushner, the key architect of the Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, launched a conference in Bahrain to advance the economic portion of his plan. “The Peace to Prosperity vision is a modern framework for a brighter and more prosperous future,” Kushner said Tuesday in the capital city of Manama. A number of regional…
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Opinion No Economic Plan Can Compete With Israel’s Occupation
As the U.S.-sponsored Mideast workshop in Bahrain commences, the Trump administration has published its economic vision for the Palestinian people, a blueprint for how to spend the $68 billion the administration wants to raise from allies in the Persian Gulf. The plan promises to transform the Palestinian economy through better governance, career counseling and training,…
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Opinion Jared Kushner’s Economic ‘Peace’ Plan Is An Embarrassment
In the fall of 2014, I sat around a table in the State Department with forty representatives of Israeli and Palestinian civil society and the peace team of then Secretary John Kerry. After failing to get his framework agreement released as the proximity talks between the parties had broken down, we were there to ask…
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Opinion Inspiring Women | Connecting People With Opportunities, From Her Home In The West Bank
By all rights, Iris Zangi should be a cautious person. A divorced mother of four and the survivor of not one but two terror attacks, you would expect her to be a person who is on the lookout for something bad at every turn, hesitant to open her heart. Instead, the tech entrepreneur, who works…
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Fast Forward Most House Democrats Slam Israeli-Palestinian Plans That Don’t Include 2 States
WASHINGTON (JTA) — More than half of the Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives say a peace plan that does not expressly have as its outcome two states would endanger the prospects of peace. The resolution, a dig at the Trump administration’s peace policies, was backed by J Street, the liberal Middle East policy…
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Opinion David Friedman Is A Joke. He Should Be Fired.
Last week, an Israeli armed with nothing but an avocado robbed two banks in the southern city of Beer Sheva. He told the terrified tellers he was holding a hand grenade. And although the average Israeli eats more avocados than anyone elsewhere in the world besides Mexico, Chile, and Peru, the tellers failed to realize…
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