The assumption that renewed financial aid would lead the Palestinian leadership to make concessions has proven, over the past three decades, to be completely baseless. Anyone in the Biden administration who thinks that the Palestinian leadership would make real concessions to Israel in return for hundreds of millions of dollars is living under an illusion.
Last year, the Palestinians rejected Trump s $50 billion Middle East economic plan that would create a global investment fund to lift the Palestinian and Arab state economies. The Palestinians dubbed it an attempted bribe.
The innocent Palestinians the Biden administration is talking about would undoubtedly be happy to receive financial aid from the US or the European Union. These Palestinians, however, are concerned that their leaders will continue to deprive them of the financial aid, and that the money, ever-fungible, would, as usual, just end up in the pockets of Palestinian leaders as well as to incentivizing murder