For Palestinians, Biden is better than Trump, no doubt. But is he good enough? What matters now is Palestinian internal unity and developing a sound strategy different from the one the Palestinian Authority has thus far embraced and which led to multiple failures and crises.
Construction bids for a new Israeli settlement cutting off Palestinian access to their supposed capital of Jerusalem will come in days after Biden takes office. The EU and Palestine have decried Givat Hamatos as the death of the two state solution. Experts say Biden will likely do nothing to prevent construction in February.
Reema Dodin is set to become the first ever Palestinian-American senior White House staffer. Her appointment was attacked by Israel supporters with specific focus on her past pro-Palestine activism.
Tony Blinken reflects Joe Biden in spinning highly scripted and cagey responses that steer a delicate path around Israel’s clout in Washington while doing nothing to offend the so-called Jewish state. He says, We need to reenter the Iran deal if Iran reenters it, because trashing the deal has made Israel unsafer; We need to leave troops in Syria and check with Israel on all our actions in the Middle East because it’s the anchor of democracy; and we need to call out Israel’s settlement activity as unhelpful but then not do anything about it.
Michael Arria talks with Palestinian-American Democratic Party activist Zeina Ashrawi Hutchison about the 2020 election, the state of the Palestinian struggle within the Democratic Party, and what to expect in the coming years.
In this episode of the Mondoweiss Podcast, Yumna Patel discusses her visit with Palestinian farmers who were attacked by Israeli settlers, and Michael Arria talks about the outcome of the 2020 election.
Officials at the Department of Education have confirmed that they’re moving forward with an investigation into alleged antisemitism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Netanyahu knows that expanding settlements “early” in the Biden administration is “red flag” so he’ll hold off to avoid a “confrontation,” says David Harris of the American Jewish Committee. But he would not avoid that confrontation if Biden has any thought of returning to the Iran deal, predicts the Israel lobbyist.