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Sean Savage

The legislation, which is 2,741 pages long, includes millions to protect synagogues, Iron Dome and Holocaust survivors, and is the culmination of months of negotiations.
“Fighting bigotry should not be a competition between minority groups; it’s not a zero-sum game,” said Denise Katz-Prober, director of legal initiatives at the Brandeis Center.
Socialist president Xiomara Castro “has bigger fish to fry right now, and foreign policy may not be the area where she wishes to pick up her first fight against the National Party” of ex-leader Juan Orlando Hernández, said Emanuele Ottolenghi, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
He announced the news outside the Palais Coburg hotel in Vienna, where talks between Iran and the P5+1 are taking place.
China, which is taking part in negotiations in Vienna as a member of the P5+1, appears keen on expanding ties in the Middle East, which could undercut U.S. sanctions on Iran.
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelming approved (420-9) legislation last September to provide $1 billion in funds, but the legislation has since stalled in the Senate.
The legislation seeks to address growing concerns over educational materials being used by the Palestinian Authority and UNRWA.
The comments by former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley come amid growing tensions between Washington and Beijing in a number of realms, including in the Middle East, where China has made significant inroads as part of its Belt and Road Initiative.
The decision by the Biden administration marks a shift from the Trump administration, which had uniformly voted against such anti-Israel votes at the United Nations.