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Palestinian elections may be doomed to fail if US and Israel interfere again
Palestinian elections may be doomed to fail if US and Israel interfere again
With the first Palestinian elections in 15 years planned for later in 2021, many fear that Israel and the US will again meddle in the democratic process. This has sparked much debate over whether the elections are set up to fail.
PLO lays forth conditions for Palestine to restore ties with US
PLO lays forth conditions for Palestine to restore ties with US
The committee agreed to restore ties with the US if the new administration allows for the PLO office in Washington to resume its work.
Other conditions include withdrawing support for Israeli plans to extend its sovereignty over parts of the West Bank and settlement activity and resuming two-state solution discussions.
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Trump sells out future of global food security for Morocco-Israel normalization deal
Trump sells out future of global food security for Morocco-Israel normalization deal
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Israel, Morocco agree to normalise relations in US-brokered deal
As part of the agreement, US President Donald Trump agreed to recognise Morocco’s sovereignty over the Western Sahara, where there has been a decades-old territorial dispute with Morocco pitted against the Algeria-backed Polisario Front, a breakaway movement that seeks to establish an independent state in the territory.
What Biden owes the Palestinians
What Biden owes the Palestinians
Fortunately, there are promising signs that Biden will take a very different approach from his predecessor. Resolution 2334 passed because U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration, then in its final days, decided not to veto it. The order came from Susan Rice, Obama’s national security adviser at the time, who is now said to be on Biden’s short list for secretary of state.
Of course, Biden himself was vice president in the Obama administration, and in 2014, he told Netanyahu, “I don’t agree with a damn thing you say.” Other projected Biden administration appointees — including incoming chief of staff Ron Klain — all oppose illegal Israeli settlement activity.
Middle East press review: How the region’s media covered Biden’s victory
Middle East press review: How the region’s media covered Biden’s victory
Nedim Sener, a columnist at increasingly pro-government newspaper Hurriyet, wrote that Fethullah Gulen’s disciples, who are accused of perpetrating the coup attempt in 2016, have been pictured with Biden in the past.
“Biden revealed his intention to interfere in Turkish domestic politics in an interview with the New York Times, where he said that the US should support the opposition leaders,” Sener said. “Biden is coming to complete what he couldn’t do with the coup attempt.”
US envoy to Israel: ‘We are considering replacing Abbas with Dahlan’
US envoy to Israel: ‘We are considering replacing Abbas with Dahlan’
In December, Turkey added Dahlan to its most wanted terrorist list, with a $1.7 million bounty on his head, due to his alleged involvement in perpetrating the attempted military coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his government on 15 July 2016, in cooperation with followers of the exiled Turkish cleric, Fethullah Gulen, who remains in the US.
Trump initially had doubts about Netanyahu
Trump initially had doubts about Netanyahu
Tillerson, according to the book, believed that “Netanyahu had manufactured the tape to counter any pro-Palestinian sentiments that were surfacing.”
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Netanyahu showed Trump likely doctored clip of Abbas backing child murder
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2017 showed US President Donald Trump a potentially doctored video in which Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas seemed to call for the murder of children, in order to sway the American leader to the Israeli side, according journalist Bob Woodward’s explosive new book on the administration, “Rage.”
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