be changing. Huawei now appears as a frequent donor, including for public conferences taking place in such prestigious locales as the French National Assembly or Senate. Quiet Chinese investments with ownership below the 10 percent declaratory level, as well as in real estate, make for more diffuse influen

be seen by most of the world as the occupier not of disputed territory but of a foreign country. The Palestinians will wake up to find that a General Assembly vote did not, in fact, give them true independence. And then there will be an explosion. The Palestinians who are watching Yemenis, Libyans and Syri

ponsored conferences. In December 15, 1988, a month after the declaration of the State of Palestine by the PLO conference in Algiers, the UN General Assembly decided in its resolution of December 15, 1988 to recognize the PLO declaration of the State of Palestine and to substitute the use of PLO for the na

de of licensed cannabis retailers, though it isn’t always enforced. Separately, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a law in late September 2018 (Assembly Bill 2914) that bans the addition of CBD or THC to any cocktail at a public establishment. The new law “prohibit[s] an alcoholic beverage licensee fr

which is effectively broke, thanks to penalties imposed by the Israeli and U.S. governments after Mahmoud Abbas's successful push for a U.N. General Assembly vote on Palestinian U.N. membership, and a freeze in financial aid from Gulf State donors, most notably Saudi Arabia -- for the better part of a year

oint through the flotilla, that Israel has no right to control the fate of Palestinians." Several months after the Exodus, the United Nations General Assembly voted for the establishment of two states in Palestine, Jewish and Arab, the key diplomatic moment in Israel's history. The HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029934 -