Unreasonable laws blocking path to US-Palestinian rapprochement
Daoud Kuttab
Flags fly over the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office in Washington, September 12, 2018. (Reuters)
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Throughout his campaign for the US presidency, Joe Biden made specific promises to the electorate, among them a number of foreign policy pledges. On the conflict in the Middle East, Biden promised to reverse some of the far-reaching decisions of his predecessor, such as closing the Palestinian mission in Washington and its counterpart, the American mission in Jerusalem.
Since taking office in January, his administration has been slowly delivering on some of these promises, such as re-establishing humanitarian aid for the Palestinians. In return, the Palestinians, who had boycotted all US officials, have agreed to re-establish diplomatic and security contacts with the Americans.
Biden’s ‘open door’ to the Palestinian Authority
David Pollock and Sander Gerber
April 26, 2021 23:37
Joe Biden and Mahmoud Abbas. (Reuters)
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The Biden administration is contemplating reopening the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) mission in Washington and restoring direct aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA), both previously shut down by the Trump administration. However, instead of diving headfirst into another diplomatic dead-end with the PA/PLO, President Joe Biden should attach real and substantial conditions to any reopening.
It is worth examining the fraught history of the PLO mission in Washington. The State Department shut down the “Palestine Information Office” in October 1987 in response to the PLO’s involvement with various acts of terror. Just two months after the closure, Congress passed the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1987, which, among other things, declared the PLO to be a terrorist organization and prohibited t
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A banner at Al-Aqsa Mosque calls for holding elections in East Jerusalem. (Wafa) Ramallah - Kifah Zboun
More and more Palestinian officials have stated that President Mahmoud Abbas may postpone the upcoming parliamentary elections, a move increasingly opposed by the Hamas movement and other electoral lists.
Nabil Shaath, an advisor Abbas, was among the latest officials to warn that elections are “very likely” to be delayed if Israel continues to bar voting in East Jerusalem.
A senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official told Kan 11 News on Wednesday that he believes there is a high probability that the elections, which are scheduled for May 22, will be delayed.
“Palestinians will not accept dictatorship. People want to be free,” one Palestinian adviser on the conflict with Israel said in March.
1 But since the last Palestinian parliamentary election in 2006, Palestine’s nascent democracy has been slowly squeezed by Israeli occupation and increasingly authoritarian Palestinian leaders. Now, fifteen years later, President Mahmoud Abbas has finally scheduled parliamentary and presidential elections. Rumors abound as to whether they will materialize. Ninety-three percent of eligible voters across Gaza and the West Bank have registered of which roughly half (ages eighteen to thirty-three) have never voted. For some Palestinians, it is a moment of hope; for the EU, it is a moment of sobriety.
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