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Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad Deserves Our Support

Woodrow Wilson School

Former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad Deserves Our Support

by Amb. Daniel Kurtzer, Princeton University,
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
With the flurry of daily tweets coming out of the White House, an important piece of news was truly underreported last week. On Feb. 10, the Trump administration blocked the appointment of Dr. Salam Fayyad, former prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, to become the United Nations special representative for Libya. There are two explanations: Either the administration did no research or background check before taking this knee-jerk action, in which case it should now do its homework and reverse a bad decision. If, however, the administration acted after careful consideration, this is yet another worrying sign of plain stupidity and blatant bias on the part of our newly sworn-in administration. https://medium.com/@WoodrowWilsonSchool

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