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The award was presented to the former president at Mar-a-Lago by Israel Heritage Foundation Executive Director Rabbi David Katz.
Biden “has really made some inappropriate comments,” the former U.S. envoy told Israel’s Channel 12.
“If I can see peace being made in the Middle East perhaps … we can have a similar peace accord in the U.S. congress,” said Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.).
The former president and 2024 candidate’s daughter and son-in-law had said late last year that they wouldn’t be part of the campaign.
Only when the U.S. “stops the aid, the Palestinians will understand that terrorism does not pay,” a Palestinian Media Watch official says.
Jared Kushner called the Abraham Accords a combination of the “right people, at the right places, at the right time working together.”
Former U.S. State Department Spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus, who developed her Jewish identity in the Arab Gulf, announced her candidacy this week for an open, Republican-friendly congressional seat in Tennessee.
“To me, what’s very important for people to understand is that it’s a new Middle East, that there aren’t a lot of people who lived through the most recent four years of this Middle East,” Jason Greenblatt tells JNS.
According to Ghaith al-Omari, a former Palestinian negotiator and senior fellow at the Washington Institute, it’s “a game of chicken. It boils down to: Does Israel want to make this into a crisis? The Bennett government has been trying to avoid public disagreements with the United States.”
Former U.S. Ambassador David Friedman talks about his years with the administration of former U.S. President Donald Trump and plans for the future.
Summing up seven tumultuous years in Washington, the former Israeli ambassador talks Trump, sovereignty and the Abraham Accords—and warns that the world isn’t going to act on the growing Iranian threat.
“Any delay in unblocking Iranian assets in Japanese banks is not justified,” says Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi after meeting in Tehran with Japan’s foreign minister.