Submitted Photo Congresswoman Julie Fedorchak, center, visits Vad Vashem, Israel’s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust during her Israel tour in early August.

Her eight-day trip to Israel early in August added clarity to events occurring in a part of the world that has been a major focus of U.S. foreign policy, Congresswoman Julie Fedorchak said Tuesday in Minot during a swing through the state.

“I left with probably more optimism about the Middle East than most might feel right now. If we can get past this war with Hamas, there’s enough other good things happening, with the Abraham Accords and negotiations with other countries on adding to the Abraham Accords, that you might be able to provide enough cover to Palestinians to choose a different way, a nonterrorist way, to o

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