The Biden Administration put forth its first detailed comments on its Israeli-Palestinian policy in a speech to the United Nations Security Council on January 26, 2021, which was also the first anniversary of the reveal of Donald Trump’s infamous “Deal of the Century.” A year later, America needs to show goodwill towards the Palestinians to gain their trust. For starters, the Biden Administration should begin by disavowing Trump’s “Deal of the Century” and declare it, and all that which resulted from it, as null and void.

Based on initial statements from the Biden Administration it appears the president has told his State Department he is not spending any political capital to fight the Israel lobby.

Netanyahu is running for reelection by saying there is “one state” between the river and the sea in which Jews and Arabs work together. He’s solidifying the apartheid reality under the nose of the Biden administration, which says pointedly that it won’t be undertaking negotiations because Israeli Palestinian trust is at a “nadir”.

In an open letter to Antony Blinken, Mona AlMsaddar tells the incoming U.S. secretary of state that his family’s story of surviving World War II resonates with her own family’s history of the Nakba. She writes, “our Nakba was not limited to 1948. It continues each day that we are forced to live under these conditions. So, please, Mr. Blinken, when you deliberate on policy related to Israel and Palestinians in the coming months, remember my family.”

The Biden administration may be looking to overturn many of the Trump administration’s policies — but not when it comes to Israel.