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He tells JNS: “Opening another consulate or mission for Palestinians in Jerusalem would violate the Jerusalem Embassy Act.”
It will focus on increasing trade, tourism and other programs to foster interpersonal connections between the five signatory countries.
“These deals are complex and take a great deal of time, but any one thing could spark the right opportunity for a deal to actually be announced and quickly consummated, as we have seen,” former White House special envoy Jason Greenblatt told JNS.
Sitting with Martin Kramer of the Shalem College as part of the Tikvah Fund’s Jewish Leadership Conference, David Friedman said that when he entered office in the first year of the Trump administration, “the Middle East was due for some unconventional thinking.”
Signees of a letter against the move were J Street, the New Israel Fund, Partners for Progressive Israel, Ameinu, Americans for Peace Now and T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights.
Most incoming American presidents face a Middle East that is “on fire,” but thanks to the Trump administration policies, especially the Abraham Accords, President Joe Biden will not, emphasizes outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman.
“These institutions enable Iran’s elite to sustain a corrupt system of ownership over large parts of Iran’s economy,” said U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
The U.S. State Department announced it has sanctioned 17 companies and one individual tied to Iran’s metals industry.
Senior adviser to the president Jared Kushner and U.S. special envoy Avi Berkowitz discuss the Abraham Accords, Israeli-Palestinian peace and Iran in an interview from Morocco.
A new campaign has been launched by Israel’s Sovereignty Movement to encourage the application of Israeli law over those areas by the government, starting with the Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea area, before Donald Trump’s presidency comes to an end.
Aside from government-funding issues, the purpose behind the list is to issue a “public condemnation” of the anti-Israel movement.
“We think the Biden administration has a great opportunity because there is so much leverage on Iran through the sanctions,“ says Elliott Abrams.
