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January 23, 2015

Is the U.S. Helping to Form a New Palestinian Army?

The U.S. Consulate in East Jerusalem, which serves as a de-facto embassy to the Palestinian Authority, recently violated a 2011 agreement by firing some of the IDF veterans who guarded the consulate and replacing them with members of the Palestinian police. The incident follows American efforts to beef up Mahmoud Abbas’s security forces, ostensibly to protect his government in the event of a violent confrontation with Hamas. Arming the PA has worked out poorly in the past, and there is little reason, writes Shoshana Bryen, to believe it will work better this time:

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January 23, 2015

  1. Is the U.S. Helping to Form a New Palestinian Army?

  2. Israel’s Improving Ties with Japan

  3. What Do Tiny Letters Have to Do with the Yiddish Stage?

  4. The ICC’s Misguided Declaration of Palestinian Statehood

  5. Orlando’s Jewish History