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April 9, 2021

The U.S. Rewards Mahmoud Abbas for His Snubs

The Palestinian Authority president wouldn’t deign to take a call from the U.S. secretary of state.

One might expect that an unpopular leader facing an upcoming election and narrowing diplomatic horizons would bend over backwards to stay in the good graces of an American president who has already remitted $90 million in aid money and promised to be more favorable than his predecessor. But such laws of political gravity don’t seem to apply to the Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas, as Ruthie Blum explains:

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April 9, 2021

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