(Algemeiner) Ira Stoll - New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief David Halbfinger's interview with U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman was inaccurate and tendentious. Halbfinger writes, "The Trump administration said it wanted to achieve peace. It will leave office this month as far away from that goal as ever." Actually, it's closer than ever to that goal: it succeeded, with the Abraham Accords, in advancing normal relations between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan. He writes that Friedman dreamed up "the seemingly endless list of political giveaways that President Trump bestowed upon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu." Rather than characterizing American actions as "political giveaways," the Times might have more accurately described policies such as moving the American embassy to Israel's capital as fulfilling long-made promises and adhering to laws like the Jerusalem Embassy Act, adopted in 1995 by the Senate (93-5) and the House (374-37).
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