Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbasâs recent call for Palestinian parliamentary and presidential elections is an obvious ploy to persuade President Biden that there could be a new beginning for relations between the U.S. and the Palestinians. Indeed, the Trump years were not kind to Abbas and the people he purports to represent, and he is desperate to emerge as a leader in control of his people and someone to be taken seriously by those interested in the future of the Middle East.
But his desperation is no substitute for facts on the ground, and we hope Biden and company will not be taken in. While it may be an exaggeration to say that all Abbas and his Fatah faction control are a couple of fruit stands in Ramallah, it does make the point that Hamas â a designated terrorist group implacably committed to the destruction of Israel â is the real power in the Palestinian world. And dealing with either an Abbas- or Hamas-led Palestinian government would be a peace-seeking
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There are obvious differences in the Democrats’ approach to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, but only in semantics and political jingoism, not policy. This assertion can be justified if the Democratic administration’s official language on Palestine and Israel is examined, and such language considered within the context of practical policies on the ground.
Motivated by their justifiable aversion to former US President Donald Trump, many analysts have rashly painted a rosy picture of how Democrats could quickly erase the bleak trajectory of the previous Republican administration. This naivety is particularly pronounced in the current spin on the Palestinian-Israeli discourse, which is promoting, again, the illusion that Democrats will succeed where their political rivals have failed.
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