The America President’s abbreviated trip (7 hours) because Arab leaders begged off a meeting with him due to reactions to the Gaza Hospital bombing that turns out was NOT by Israel…..
Biden is looking for Military aid money for Israel and Humanitarian money for the Palestinians….
Biden, who arrived amid growing concerns that the conflict could draw in other adversaries, pledged at a meeting of Israel’s war cabinet in Tel Aviv that the United States “will continue to have Israel’s back as you work to defend your people.” He was meeting Wednesday with families of hostage held by Hamas and victims of the militant group’s cross-border attack. The president also has “hard questions” for Israel about its plans, a White House spokesman said.
The Gaza hospital blast has fueled concern about the potential for a wider regional escalation of the conflict. The U.S. State Department on Tuesday raised its travel advisory for Lebanon to the most severe level, warning U.S. citizens not to visit the country. Biden was scheduled to meet with the leaders of Jordan, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority to discuss the conflict and humanitarian assistance, but the summit was canceled after the strike…..
image…CNN
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$100 Million of US taxpayer dollars going to the Plaestaiians ….
(there will be more)
Biuden also pushing for a ‘two state’ solutioin down the road…..
US President Donald Trump has casually dumped five decades of US policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying he won’t insist on a two-state solution and that he would simply “like the one that both parties like.”
His comments give fuel to growing interest in a one-state solution as negotiations to create a sovereign Palestinian state have stalled in recent years.
Trump also called for an Arab-backed peace process – an idea that’s been periodically revived over the past two decades without producing results. But such a process insists on a sovereign Palestinian state….
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Does Hamas believe in one state or two states?
jamesb still seems to think they are the “moderates.”
A one-state solution that worked would require more power-sharing with Arab Israelis (and/or Palestinians and/or Muslims) than many in Mr. Netanyahu’s coalition would ever tolerate. [Remember that Yitzhak Rabin’s reward for the Oslo Accords was a bullet from a Jewish fanatic, not a Muslim one.]