Ambassador Tom Nides says he will 'pound tables' with Israeli minister to get ball rolling on extending 4G service to all Palestinians, wants PA to have role at Allenby crossing

Review: David Friedman's memoir 'Sledgehammer' finds the former ambassador unsnarling years of broken diplomacy for a new Middle East, though others recall a less tidy narrative

Breaking from annexation-backing predecessor, Tom Nides tells Hebrew paper he's entering job with 'no ideology,' says unlike Trump, Biden believes US must care for Palestinians

US correspondent Jacob Magid updates us on a new development in PA-US tit-for-tat politics and reporter Carrie Keller-Lynn goes in-depth on humiliating procedures for abortions

Palestinian officials tell ToI Ramallah can't be expected to follow through on key asks, such as reform of prisoner payment policy, when Biden isn't living up to his promises

PA president tells Jake Sullivan that Israel must stop 'unilateral practices' that undermine two states; US official says Palestinian prisoner payments also on agenda

US correspondent Jacob Magid on Israel's influence over Iranian nuclear talks in Vienna; and political reporter Tal Schneider on Aryeh Deri's get-out-of-jail-free card

But the US Embassy's Palestinian Affairs Unit is now reporting directly to DC, as the shuttered Jerusalem mission did until 2019, in a partial revival of the pre-Trump status quo

David Kustoff of Tennessee introduces bill to block move, while Lee Zeldin, who is running for NY governor, garners 206 signatures on a letter to Biden

Commanders for Israel's Security chairman says Biden plan consistent with stated Israeli desire to strengthen PA, pans politicians for 'inflating issues to existential proportions'