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Tuesday 12 July 2022
How Pallys Funded, Pay to Slay to Continue, Abbas Threatens Biden if Demands not met
In advance of Joe Biden’s upcoming visit to Israel this month, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas threatens consequences to the U.S. and Israel if Biden doesn’t meet all his demands
In advance of U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel, to the Palestinian Authority (PA) headed by President Mahmoud ‘Abbas, clearly articulated what it expected the visit to yield – namely the fulfillment of a series of commitments they claim Biden made them during his election campaign and since the start of his presidency.
Chief among these demands are:
Removal of the PLO from the Congress list of terror organizations;
Reopening of the PLO representation in Washington, which was shut down by the previous administration;
Reopening of the U.S. consulate in East Jerusalem (which Israel has rejected as is their legal right), which served as the U.S. representation to the PA until it was closed upon the Trump administration’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital;
Renewal of the U.S. financial aid to the PA, halted in August 2018 by president Trump; (Biden has already restored nearly $500 million in US funding to the Palestinian Authority and UNRWA, the corrupt UN organization that provides more free handouts to the Palestinians)
Exerting significant pressure on Israel to halt what the Palestinian leadership refers to as Israel’s unilateral settlement activities in the West Bank(Judea & Samaria which is Israeli territory), its attempts to change the status quo in East Jerusalem (There is no such area as East Jerusalem. Jerusalem is Jerusalem and it is the capital of Israel. Period) and Al-Aqsa, and the escalation of its actions against the Palestinians;
Reiteration of the U.S. commitment to the two-state solution, and serious action towards renewing the negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel.
These demands were repeatedly stated in meetings and contacts between Palestinian and U.S. officials ahead of Biden’s visit, and in Palestinian officials’ media statements. According to reports, the atmosphere of these exchanges was tense, after the Americans informed the Palestinians that these moves would not be promoted in the near future.
The Palestinian’s anger and frustration with the American position caused them to lower their expectations from the visit, and also to threaten that, if the visit fails to produce any breakthrough or create a political horizon, and if none of their demands are met, they will be forced to implement decisions taken by the PLO Central Council in February 2022. These decisions include:
Suspending the PA’s recognition of Israel until the latter recognizes a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders whose capital is East Jerusalem,
Revoking all the PLO’s agreements with Israel, suspending the security coordination with Israel in all its forms, and drafting practical measures for transforming the Palestinian Authority into a sovereign Palestinian state.
The June 26 editorial of the PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida cited an article by former Jordanian foreign minister Marwan Al-Mu’asher and political analyst and human rights activist Zaha Hassan, published recently in the U.S. magazine Foreign Affairs,[16] in which they warned the Biden administration that its policy towards the Palestinians was a recipe for violence. The editorial clarified that, if Biden’s visit fails to create a political horizon, the violence will indeed continue:
Fatah Revolutionary Council member and Al-Hayat Al-Jadida columnist Muwaffaq Matar likewise warned that, in the current situation, there are only two options: Biden’s visit will either restart the political process, or it will lead to consequences that the Israelis cannot imagine, and the U.S. administration will be responsible for this.
He wrote: “The U.S. administration will have to bear the consequences for the fact that we [Palestinians] have only two options, and no third option: either a breakthrough in a peace process based on the UN resolutions – which must begin with practical measures and by exerting pressure on the occupation, settlement and apartheid state, i.e., the state of Israel… – or else the second option, which will [dire] beyond the expectations of the experts and strategic analysts of the Israeli occupation and its supporters…”
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