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Flying under the radar

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Flying under the radar, not very much in the news at all, is a decision by the Biden Administration to provide $235 million of United States aid to the Palestinian Authority.  The Palestinian Authority was set up by the Oslo Accords, brokered by William Clinton, between the Israelis and the Arabs living on the west bank of the Jordan River in 1994.  The west bank of the Jordan River, as a separate entity, did not exist until 1948 when the Kingdom of Jordan invaded Israel in an attempt to drive all Jews out of the Jewish homeland.  Jordan was a creation of the colonialist British Empire.  The land that became Jordan, had been promised to the Jewish people by declarations and treat

The US should help Palestinians vote regardless of potential outcomes

© Getty Images The ghost of 2006 hangs heavy over the heads of United States policymakers anticipating Palestinian elections scheduled for May 22. Hamas’s surprise victory over a divided Fatah in 2006 upended the plans of those within the Bush administration who had advocated for allowing the elections to proceed, notwithstanding the participation of a group designated as a foreign terrorist organization. When the results became evident, the United States and its Quartet partners adopted a series of conditions for future engagement, which Hamas has never come close to meeting.    Today, the United States attitude toward the upcoming elections can best be described as ambivalent. The Biden administration has not issued any statements welcoming the elections as a much-needed expression of the democratic will of Palestinian population. Indeed, many believe that the United States would prefer a postponement of the elections to avoid an anticipated Hamas victory, which would inevi

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