The American President has signalled that the US WILL send money to help the Palestinians rebuild the area’s damaged by Israeli bombing in response to the Hamas rocket fire INTO Israel ….
The US would be joining and international reconstruction effort probably under the United Nations….Biden is also looking at the internal politics among the Arab factions in Gaza and the West Bank which IS part of this whole thing…We know about the political benefit coming to the Israeli Prime Minister from the military actions there….The politics of b both sides are at play in this….
The American President is looking add on to the last minute Trump admin Arab nations peace efforts with Israel….
With a cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian militants underway, the Biden administration is now turning to how it can help rebuild the besieged Gaza Strip — and in turn bring pressure, through promises of financial support, on Hamas not to resume fighting.
President Biden had urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to accept a cease-fire, but it did not take effect until the violence had forced more than 72,000 Palestinians from their homes in Gaza, pockets of which are now just piles of rubble where tall buildings once stood.
“I believe the Palestinians and Israelis equally deserve to live safely and securely,” Mr. Biden said on Thursday during brief remarks delivered at the White House, “and to enjoy equal measures of freedom, prosperity and democracy.”
A senior Biden administration official said the United States was planning to be at the fore of an international response, most likely costing billions of dollars, to include restoring health and education services, and other reconstruction….
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The Biden administration will also refocus on how to build on new alliances between Israel and Arab states that were brokered last year, largely at the behest of President Donald J. Trump.
The administration is also considering how to foster relations and coordination among rival Palestinian political factions in Gaza and the West Bank, as outlined in an analysis co-written in 2018 by Hady Amr, now a deputy assistant secretary of state for Israel and Palestinian issues.
Rebuilding Gaza is a necessary part of the diplomacy — and not only as what some officials see as a moral imperative to help residents. Officials and experts said it was also a point of leverage with Hamas, the militant group that governs the Gaza Strip but has lost popularity among residents who criticize its authoritarian approach and poor administration.
“In a sense, you need to put Hamas in a position where they have to choose between their rockets and the well-being of Gaza,” said Dennis B. Ross, a veteran American negotiator of peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians and Middle East policy for at least four U.S. presidents…
Dan Balz over at the WashPost on the fine line Biden has had to walk on this….
…A February Gallup survey found that 75 percent of Americans said they had a positive view of America’s closest ally in the Middle East, and those numbers have been relatively stable. Meanwhile, since 2018, favorable views of the Palestinian Authority have risen from 21 percent to 30 percent. Among Democrats, favorable views rose from 26 percent to 38 percent.
A decade ago, by margins of about 2-to-1, Democrats said their sympathies were more with Israelis than with Palestinian Arabs. Polling in February showed Democrats now closely divided, with 42 percent saying their sympathies were with Israelis and 39 percent citing the Palestinian Arabs. That compares with a 79 percent to 11 percent split in favor of Israelis among Republicans….
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