SOURCE: AXIOS Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will hold a meeting in New York on Wednesday with senior officials representing 40 countries and international organizations to discuss ways to block or influence the upcoming U.S. Middle East peace plan, Israeli officials and Western diplomats told me. Why it matters: This is Abbas’ most proactive diplomatic step … Continued
SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST BY: ISHAAN THAROOR Historically, the United States has been the most welcoming nation on the planet for refugees. Since the adoption of the 1980 U.S. Refugee Act, it has taken in around 3 million of the more than 4 million refugees who have been resettled around the world. But President Trump … Continued
SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST BY: NOURA ERAKAT Noura Erakat is a Palestinian American human rights attorney and assistant professor at George Mason University. She is the author of “Justice for Some: Law as Politics in the Question of Palestine,” which will be published next year by Stanford University Press. The Trump administration’s decision to end … Continued
Cuts to UNRWA will mean refugee children have less access to education. Cuts to an East Jerusalem hospital will mean less treatment. Why? Why go out of his way like that? SOURCE: DAILY BEAST BY: DEAN OBEIDALLAH Cruel. To me, that one word best sums up Donald Trump. We’ve seen Trump’s cruelty on display time … Continued
SOURCE: WASHINGTON POST WHEN PRESIDENT Trump moved the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem in May, some speculated the controversial step could serve to jolt Middle East diplomacy out of a deep rut and open the way for the Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative the White House has been promising. That’s not what happened: Instead, an angry Palestinian … Continued
SOURCE: DEFENSE NEWS BY: CHIRINE MOUCHANTAF BEIRUT — The Trump administration has in recent months been quietly working on creating a new security alliance comprised of six Gulf Arab states plus Egypt and Jordan, unofficially known as the “Arab NATO,” and also dubbed the “Middle East Strategic Alliance,” or MESA. The six Gulf Arab nations … Continued
“We started our movement in 1965 to rebuild our right to self-determination,” Dr. Abdullah affirmed, “and we will continue struggling by all legitimate means to regain our sovereignty.” SOURCE: THE JERUSALEM POST BY: CHARLES BYBELEZER/MEDIA LINE United States President Donald Trump asserted Tuesday that Israel would need to pay a hefty price in any future … Continued
SOURCE: REUTERS BY: DAVID BRUNNSTROM WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is cutting more than $200 million in aid to the Palestinians, the State Department said on Friday, amid a deteriorating relationship with the Palestinian leadership. A senior State Department official said without elaborating that the funds, originally planned for programs in the West Bank … Continued
SOURCE: LOBE LOG BY: ANDREW MILLER AND RICHARD SOKOLSKY The Trump administration, in its preoccupation with containing and rolling back Iranian influence in the Middle East, is pursuing a hare-brained and potentially risky scheme: “a regional security alliance comprised of Egypt, Jordan, and six Gulf Arab states and informally known as the “Arab NATO.” Fortunately, … Continued
SOURCE: THE ATLANTIC BY: KRISHNADEV CALAMUR When President Donald Trump said on Twitter this weekend that the United States had ended “the ridiculous” $230 million in civilian funds it provides for Syria, he seemed keen to emphasize the savings to the U.S. He did not add that the United States will continue spending billions of … Continued
SOURCE: MASARAT.PS BY: HANI AL-MASRI The US administration has not officially presented the “deal” in detail although it was being mentioned soon after Donald Trump’s assumption of the US presidency. Despite giving several dates for the announcement of the proposed deal, the US administration has not officially presented it because of strenuous Palestinian opposition that … Continued
In the shadows during the Obama administration, Islamophobia has come out into the light under Trump. The silver lining is that it can now be challenged. SOURCE: TRT WORLD BY: KHALED BEYDOUN On June 26, 2018, the United States Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trump’s executive order, widely dubbed as the “Muslim Ban.” This decision … Continued
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