A recent debate over the rank of the U.S. Security Coordinator for the Palestinian Authority has refocused attention on security cooperation with Israel and the question of who it truly benefits.

Israel has shown contempt for the idea of accountability in the killing of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, refusing to share its information with the many press investigations that have found that an Israeli soldier killed Abu Akleh. And yet the U.S. State Department goes along with this farce, saying Israel is capable of a “transparent” and “thorough” inquiry that culminates in accountability. At least one reporter mocks the idea.

Joe Biden once vowed to make Saudi Arabia a “pariah,” but now he is looking to rebuild relations and many expect normalization with Israel to be on the agenda.

Joe Biden is scheduled to make his first trip to Palestine as president in July. The visit will serve as yet another message to the Palestinian people that Israel is working hand in hand with the US, and whether a Democrat or a Republican is in the White House, that isn’t going to change.

The battle between J Street and AIPAC to influence the Democratic Party is also opening space for Palestine solidarity to enter the mainstream.

“Is it time for this occupation to end? Morally speaking, how much should this military occupation go on, generation after generation?” Said Arikat asks the State Department after another humiliating incident: Israeli soldiers forced a Palestinian woman at a cagelike checkpoint to strip her three-year-old’s tshirt because it pictured a rifle.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken continues to claim the facts “have not been established” in the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh.

Coming soon if a Palestinian-American wants to travel to the occupied West Bank to visit their family, they will need to apply to the Israeli government for advanced permission, reveal the personal information of the relatives they plan on visiting, along with data of any land they own or stand to inherit in the territory. These are just some of the invasive restrictions that Palestinians who hold foreign passports would be subjected to according to a new ordinance published by the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories, the Israeli government agency responsible for enforcing Israeli policy in the occupied territory. “This is Apartheid in action,” Ahmed Abofoul, a lawyer with Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq told Mondoweiss of the new policy.

Two congressional letters to the Biden administration on the ethnic cleansing in Masafer Yatta show the differences within the Democratic Party when it comes to Palestine.

The Biden administration has dropped any sense of urgency when it comes to demanding an investigation for the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, even if they won’t admit it.