US renews aid to Palestinians, backs two-state solution
Acting US Ambassador to the UN Richard Mills said Washington will push for Arab-Israeli normalisation. “Yet, we recognise that Arab-Israeli normalisation is not a substitute for Israeli-Palestinian peace,” he said.
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Then-US Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, shake hands in Ramallah, West Bank, Wednesday, March 9, 2016. (AP)
NEW YORK - UNITED NATIONS - US President Joe Biden’s administration announced Tuesday it was restoring relations with the Palestinians and renewing aid to Palestinian refugees, a reversal of former US President Donald Trump’s administration’s cutoff and a key element of its new support for a two-state solution to the decades-old conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
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Richard Mills, the acting U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said the Biden administration will restore diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority and resume aid to Palestinians that was cut off during the Trump presidency. Mills also said the U.S. would continue to support a two-state solution, though many progressive regional experts oppose the strategy, saying it is no longer viable.
In related news, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced earlier this month parliamentary and presidential elections will be held this year â the first elections in the Occupied Territories in 15 years. Analysts say the move is an overture to the new Biden administration.
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Palestinians are eager to turn a new page after four years of the Trump administration in Washington, which undermined the whole Palestinian cause. Trump let Israel s right-wing government do as it pleased, and gave its illegal activities a veneer of acceptability.
Joe Biden s election win was thus welcomed, not least by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who saw it as a step towards advancing a peaceful solution for Palestine-Israel. However, Dr Yara Hawari, senior analyst at the Palestinian Policy Network, Al-Shabaka, pointed out that Trump s policies were really just Washington s traditional stance on Palestine, with full and unconditional support for the state of Israel.
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