Promoting Peace? Reexamining U.S. Aid to the Palestinian Authority

Testimony by Elliott Abrams

September 14, 2011

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With the upcoming vote at the United Nations on Palestinian statehood, Elliott Abrams urges Congress to reexamine the U.S. aid program to the Palestinian Authority in his testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

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