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
India’s Modi Speaks With Biden Amid Twitter Protests Against Latter
India’s Modi Speaks With Biden Amid Twitter Protests Against Latter
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While many Indians are asking US President Joseph R. Biden to take action against American celebrities such as singer Rihanna, actor Susan Sarandon, and Vice President Kamala Harris’s niece Meena Harris for tweeting in favor of protesting farmers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reached out to him to exchange pleasantries.
“Spoke to @POTUS @JoeBiden and conveyed my best wishes for his success,” tweeted Modi on Feb. 8.
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A Palestinian pupil walks past United Nations Relief and Works Agency, (UNRWA) and USAID humanitarian aid, on June 6, 2010 in the Shatie refugee camp in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)
A US State Department spokesman said Tuesday that the previous administration’s slashing of aid to the Palestinians had failed to produce results and reiterated the new American leadership’s intention to restore such financial assistance.
“The suspension of aid to the Palestinian people has neither produced political progress, nor secured concessions from the Palestinian leadership. It has only harmed innocent Palestinians,” Ned Price said at a press briefing.
The US has said that it is carefully reviewing a report from the UN on Sri Lankas human rights situation which highlights worrying trends such as deepening impunity, increasing militarisation of governmental functions, ethno-nationalist rhetoric and intimidation of the civil society over the past year. The report urges enhanced monitoring and strong preventive action by […]
The US has said that it is carefully reviewing a report from the UN on Sri Lanka’s human rights situation which highlights worrying trends such as deepening impunity, increasing militarisation of governmental functions, ethno-nationalist rhetoric and intimidation of the civil society over the past year.