US Palestinians Urge Biden, If Elected, To Overturn Trump’s Pro-Israel Policies

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Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden removes a face mask to protect against the spread of the new coronavirus as he arrives to speak at Alexis Dupont High School in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, June 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

WASHINGTON (JNS) – Palestinian Americans have been pressuring Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden to shift U.S. policy in favor of the Palestinians if he wins the election in November, Reuters reported on Thursday.

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According to the report, one source said that the pressure campaign has not had any significant impact.

“The progressives want a full-throttle platform change—a pro-Palestinian flank, an anti-annexation flank—but there just isn’t appetite in the campaign so far,” the source said.

“If Mr. Biden (is) elected in November, we hope that it will be a totally different dynamic,” Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said last week, referring to U.S. President Donald Trump’s strengthening of ties with the Jewish state, which has included working with the Israeli government to chart the part of his “Peace to Prosperity” plan that allows for Jerusalem to extend sovereignty into parts of Judea and Samaria. The Trump administration also has cut aid to the Palestinian Authority over its “pay for slay” policy.

Biden campaign spokesman Michael Gwin said in a statement to Reuters: “Biden opposes any unilateral action by either side that makes the prospects of a two-state solution less likely—including annexation, which Biden opposes now, and would continue to oppose as president.”


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Marie Yovanovitch
Marie Yovanovitch
3 years ago

The Palestinians should be more concerned with the criminal activity of Hunter Biden and his dad’s quid pro quo with the corrupt Ukrainian government than any silly worthless land renaming.