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U.S. President Joe Biden, joined by First Lady Jill Biden, in the Library of the White House on March 31, 2021. Credit: Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz.

‘It’s essential to protect historical truth’: Jewish groups react to Biden’s recognition of Armenian...

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Jewish organizations responded positively to the United States officially recognizing as a genocide the killing and deportation of more than a million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century. The declaration...
Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo joins Republicans to unveil the Maximum Pressure Act, April 21, 2021. Source: Twitter/Republican Study Group.

GOP lawmakers join Pompeo to unveil Iran sanctions bill

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Attempting to send a signal that the GOP does not support the Biden administration’s efforts to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, or the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), former Secretary of State Mike...
Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.). Credit: BestStockFoto/Shutterstock.

Bipartisan group of senators urge Biden to nominate anti-Semitism envoy ASAP

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A bipartisan group of senators on Monday urged U.S. President Joe Biden to quickly nominate a candidate to serve as the U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism and confront rising anti-Semitism worldwide. The...
Construction on the new border wall system project near Yuma, Ariz., June 3, 2020. Credit: Jerry Glaser, U.S. Government Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Why is HIAS seeking to make America’s border crisis even worse?

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Over the weekend, President Joe Biden finally conceded that what was happening at America’s southern border is a “crisis,” a word that his administration had consistently refused to use when referring to the situation...
Negotiations in Vienna, Austria, between Iran and European Union, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Russia and China. Source: European External Action Service/Twitter.

America’s Middle East allies unite against Iran, see start of talks as ‘betrayal’

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The renewal of indirect talks last week between the United States and Iran to revive the 2015 nuclear deal—the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—appears to have escalated tensions in the Middle East, as...
A Palestinian boy pedals by the closed offices of U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) during a strike of all UNRWA institutions in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Sept. 24, 2018. Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Israel’s envoy blasts Biden administration over renewal of UNRWA funding

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The United States announced on Wednesday that it is working with Congress to drastically increase aid to the Palestinians, including renewing aid to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which deals primarily with...
U.S. President Joe Biden participates in a conference phone call in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 16, 2021. Credit: Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson.

Biden’s push for restoring aid to Palestinians faces legal hurdles and brewing political crisis

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In recent days, the Biden administration has moved rapidly to restore funding to the Palestinians that had been largely severed during the Trump administration. Concerns are being raised, however, that the funding could both violate...
Iranian negotiator Saeed Jalili, the former chair of Iran's National Security Council, stands ready to negotiate with his interlocutors over the Iran nuclear deal in Vienna. Credit: Iran press.

Prospects for ‘improved’ nuclear deal dim as talks restart in Vienna

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Ahead of the opening of indirect negotiations between Iran and the United States in Vienna through intermediaries, Iran presented a tough and uncompromising stance calling for the lifting of all sanctions if the United...
Then-IDF Brig. Gen. Tal Kalman, Aug. 2, 2018. Source: IAF/Twitter.

Iran and Israel’s strategic paradox

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The past year was very good for Israel, security-wise. The number of attacks was relatively low, and the intensive focus on the pandemic (and elections) pushed aside issues that in normal times would have...
U.S. President Joe Biden signs a commission for Gina Raimondo as Secretary of Commerce, March 3, 2021. Credit: Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz.

Biden revokes Trump-imposed sanctions against ICC prosecutor

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U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday lifted the sanctions against International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda that were imposed seven months ago by his predecessor, former President Donald Trump. The move was also directed at Phakiso Mochochoko,...