Joe Biden Restores American Aid to The Palestinian Authority Published January 28th, 2021 - 06:43 GMT
A Palestinian children help their father to collect rubble to sell it in Gaza City on January 20, 2021. Mohammed ABED / AFP
Highlights
Leading Palestinians also reacted positively to the restoration of American aid to the PA.
While the move is a good sign, it might not be enough to persuade both sides to renegotiate their differences, experts say.
After four trying years under the Trump administration, Palestinians finally have some good news from the new US President Joe Biden. He has ordered a restoration of American aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA).
Wed Jan 27, 2021 Joe Biden has become the 46
th president of the United States. He will face many challenges on the global stage. The Middle East, for one, can be counted on to provide multiple crises and opportunities for America. Below, we examine the most significant of them. In the past six months four Arab-Muslim majority states normalized relations with the Jewish state. They proceeded to establish diplomatic and commercial relations with Israel; they include Bahrain, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Sudan, and Morocco. The question now is whether the Biden administration will continue this trend, and extend peace between Israel and additional Arab-Muslim states such as Saudi Arabia and Tunisia. Previous assumptions by U.S. administrations have been that Arab states will only make peace with Israel if the Palestinian issue was resolved. President Donald Trump defied this premise, and proved that regional peace between Arab states and Israel mustn’t wait for Pale
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Barack Obama might not be the 46th president of the United States, but his fingerprints all over the Biden administration couldn’t be more obvious. As I reported on Monday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki snagged the ignominious term “strategic patience” from Obama’s disastrous foreign policy and slapped it onto Biden’s China policy.
And on Tuesday, the Biden administration announced it was restoring relations with the Palestinians those pesky folks who have a proclivity for indiscriminately firing rockets into Israeli civilian areas every now and again
as well as restoring financial aid to Palestinian refugees, à la the Obama administration, as reported by the Associated Press.
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th president of the United States. He will face many challenges on the global stage. The Middle East, for one, can be counted on to provide multiple crises and opportunities for America. Below, we examine the most significant of them. In the past six months four Arab-Muslim majority states normalized relations with the Jewish state. They proceeded to establish diplomatic and commercial relations with Israel; they include Bahrain, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Sudan, and Morocco. The question now is whether the Biden administration will continue this trend, and extend peace between Israel and additional Arab-Muslim states such as Saudi Arabia and Tunisia. Previous assumptions by U.S. administrations have been that Arab states will only make peace with Israel if the Palestinian issue was resolved. President Donald Trump defied this premise, and proved that regional peace betwee