The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees announced Wednesday it was cutting more than 250 jobs in the Palestinian territories after the United States held back hundreds of millions in aid.

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Tuesday rebuked the international community for pontificating about the Palestinians’ suffering but failing to substantially support them financially, defending the US’s own cuts to Ramallah and Gaza.

UN special envoy to the Middle East Nickolay Mladenov on Wednesday said the World Bank will allocate $90 million to Palestinians, up from $55 million last year, in response to “the alarming economic circumstances in the occupied Palestinian territory.”

The United States could apply some of the security measures used for Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip to its own frontier with Mexico, an Israeli cabinet minister said on Tuesday.

At least 63 Palestinian women are being held in Israeli prisons, including journalists and mothers.

Zomlot made clear that the Palestinian mission in Washington is seeking to strengthen its relations with the American people, rather than mend ties with the White House.

I do not need the Jewish Nation-State Law to remind me that I am not equal to my Jewish friends. And yet, I was born here, I grew up here, this is my homeland. I have no intention of going anywhere.

“What could possibly explain the genuine empathy felt by centrist and even right-wing Israelis toward Syrians, and their simultaneous apathy toward the suffering of Palestinians?”

“The pre-planned strategy was timed to set the stage for the re-imposition of U.S. economic sanctions on Iran three weeks from now.”

In this special live broadcast of FMEP’s podcast “Occupied Thoughts,” Peter Beinart is joined by Omar Baddar (Arab American Institute) and Rebecca Vilkomerson (Jewish Voice for Peace) to discuss the issues – both in the U.S. and in Israel – that are challenging liberal democratic values, and how Americans might organize around them.