FMEP Legislative Round-Up: January 8, 2021
1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters 2. Hearings & Markups 3. On the Record Shameless plug: FMEP webinar Jan 11, 2021: “Raided and Razed”: West Bank…
1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters 2. Hearings & Markups 3. On the Record Shameless plug: FMEP webinar Jan 11, 2021: “Raided and Razed”: West Bank…
“‘There are forces out there that are going to be looking to exact a political price on Biden for anything that he does that is seen as conciliatory for the Palestinians,’ said Foundation for Middle East Peace president Lara Friedman. ‘The best thing he can do is own his policies.’ She added that heeding the PA’s request regarding the 1987 legislation ‘would be a powerful declaration of independence by Biden from decades of foreign policy-making shackled by logic and legal constructs [imposed by Congress] geared not to promote Israeli-Palestinian peace but to prevent it.’”
“Aside from declaring the law unconstitutional, Biden has no clear path to allowing the PLO back in Washington,” Friedman said.
Special Year-End Edition of the Round-Up: The Middle East in the FY21 Consolidated Appropriations Bill *Brought to you in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now,…
FMEP hosted a panel featuring Sami Abdel Shafi, the Carter Center’s representative on the ground in Gaza since mid-2008, and Elizabeth Campbell, the new director of UNRWA’s Regional Office in Washington, DC.
FMEP President Lara Friedman moderates a panel at the 2018 J Street Conference discussing the future of American diplomacy, especially in the Middle East, under Trump.
Setting Settlements in Stone: a panel of experts, including FMEP's Lara Friedman, discuss Israel's policies of annexation in the West Bank.