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A man, draped in a version of the Israeli flag, stations himself outside the Capital Jewish Museum, after two Israeli embassy staff were shot dead there, in Washington, D.C., USA, on May 21, 2025.
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2: An Israeli couple who work at their country’s embassy in Washington, D.C., were shot and killed last night outside the Capital Jewish Museum by a gunman who reportedly chanted “free, free Palestine,” after he shot and killed them. Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim were identified as the two people murdered. A 31-year-old suspect is in custody.
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8: Mahmoud Abbas, the longtime chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, visited Lebanon on Wednesday for the first time in 8 years. He met with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, as the two leaders called for the disarming of armed groups that operate in Palestinian refugee camps.
75: US Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), who was serving his ninth term in Congress, died Wednesday morning at the age of 75. The former congressional staffer oversaw his district’s transformation from a sleepy suburban area on the outskirts of D.C. into a booming tech hub. His passing means there are now three vacancies in Democratic-leaning House seats, and gives US Speaker Mike Johnson a little breathing room as he prepares to pass the “Big Beautiful Bill.”
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4,268: If you don’t have anything rice to say, don’t say it. Japanese Farm Minister Taku Eto resigned Wednesday after he declared over the weekend that he never has to buy rice because his supporters give him the staple grain free of charge. The comments didn’t land well with the public, in large part because rice prices have ballooned to 4,268 yen ($29.63) for a five-kilogram bag, a record.
Ian Explains: Why Israeli-Palestinian peace talks at Camp David came close but failed in 2020
The last best chance at peace between Israel and Palestine included bowling and baseball at a wooded retreat in rural Maryland.
Twenty-three years ago at Camp David, US President Bill Clinton welcomed Palestinian Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak for a two-week summit in a bucolic setting. The goal: find an enduring solution to the Israel-Palestine crisis.
But as Ian Bremmer explains, as the three leaders strolled together down a leafy Camp David road, they couldn’t have been further apart in their expectations for the summit. Ehud Barak, the young, leftist Israeli Prime Minister—fresh off a series of failed negotiations with Syria—had pushed hard for the summit, arguing that it was the “pressure cooker” that would require him and Arafat to make real progress on a two-state solution. His strategy was to either secure a deal or expose Arafat as an unreliable partner.
Meanwhile, Yasser Arafat was treading water of his own. Given his constituency’s mistrust of Israel and his resentment of Barak’s recent focus on Syria, Arafat was in no hurry to reach an agreement. He had warned Clinton ahead of the summit that his side was not ready to come to the table. Nor did he trust Barak to follow through on his promises.
This is the story of what happened at those talks and why the best chance in a generation for peace in the Middle East failed.
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