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Bernie Sanders’ Foreign-policy Adviser Meets With PLO Official Banned by US By JNS May 29, 2019 , 10:43 am “A ruler who listens to lies, All his ministers will be wicked.” Proverbs 29:12 (The Israel Bible™) Hanan Ashrawi, the longtime aide to Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, met on Monday with Matthew Duss, the foreign-policy adviser for the presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), according to a statement released by the Department of Public Diplomacy and Policy of the Palestine Liberation Organization. “The two parties discussed the Trump administration’s hostile approach in the region and its destructive policies...

Judging by liberal reaction to Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress on Tuesday, the Israeli Prime minister scored a direct hit at Obama's Arab-first policy. At least amongst the Arab-first crowd that Obama supports. "Given how much buildup the speech received," writes Matthew Duss in Slate, "and how much of America’s time has been wasted with the controversy surrounding it—it’s simply amazing that Netanyahu didn’t use the chance to offer any new or interesting ideas."And that's the best Duss has to offer in the Slate piece titled Netanyahu Just Did Obama a Big Favor.He never really gets to the big favor...

What, me worry about Ahmadinejad? Last night's MSNBC lineup provided a trifecta of reasons people dismiss that network's "news analysis": the intellect of the show's host, the insight of his guest, and the reputation of a “scholar” the guest referenced. In this case, Ed Schultz interviewed a man who encouraged us to think the best of a Holocaust Denier and cited a "scholar" who turned in an intellectually bankrupt review of a book I co-wrote with David Horowitz, Party of Defeat. On "The Ed Show" last night, Schultz discussed the Iranian nuclear program with Matthew Duss, a senior policy researcher...