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In a time when many Americans are struggling to make ends meet, President Joe Biden is ensuring that terrorist-sponsoring regimes stay well-funded. Biden made a commitment to provide hundeds of millions in taxpayer dollars to the Palestinians at a meeting with Palestinian authority leader Mahmoud Abbas on his Israel trip while reaffirming his commitment to the “two-state solution.” “Now, as president of the United States, my commitment to that goal of a two-state solution has not changed in all these years,” he said. “Two states along the 1967 lines were mutually agreed. The swaps remain the best way to achieve...

Contiguous. Sounds like a big, fancy word. It's really not. It has a simple meaning. It means "adjoining" or "connected". An example is Canada and the United States, which are contiguous. We are hearing the word "contiguous" a great deal now in connection with the nascent state of Palestine, which the world wishes to foist onto Israel and which Israel now has agreed to. But a contiguous state is not possible for Palestine without making Israel into a non-contiguous state. Here's why: The territories of Samaria and Judea (commonly called "West Bank") and Gaza are the two areas that may...

Since yesterday’s speech at the Sharm el-Sheik summit three versions of what George Bush intended to say regarding a future Palestinian state’s geographical makeup have emerged. Bush himself said that the Palestinian state would have to include continuous territory. White house spokesman Ari Fleischer later clarified that Bush had intended to say contiguous rather than continuous. Secretary of State Colin Powell said that what was most important is that the state not be a series of South African-like Bantustans. The Palestinians must accept it as a state and feel free to move between its territories.