America and Israel did not do enough to keep in office the former Palestinian Authority prime minister, a U.S. senator charged. The remarks on Mahmoud Abbas by Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, were significant because he is one of Israel’s most outspoken defenders in Washington.
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