"Leaving Aside" International Law: Why Democrats are as Dangerous as Republicans to a Just Peace in Palestine
by Ramzy Baroud / February 18th, 2021 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. There are obvious differences in the Democrats’ approach to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, but only in semantics and poli...