“Biden’s visit really doesn’t do any good“, believes Dimitri Diliani, member of the revolutionary council of Fatah. In Ramallah, seat of the Palestinian Authority, nobody speaks of the visit of the American president on the occasion of his tour in the Middle East. After a warm welcome at Ben Gurion airport on Wednesday, a demonstration of Israeli army technologies and a visit to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial, the American president is stepping up discussions this Thursday with Israeli leaders and should wear a “statement” sealing the cooperation of the United States and Israel against Iran.
On Friday, Joe Biden will meet Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and could bring “significant help” for hospitals in East Jerusalem, and a project to develop a 4G network in both the occupied West Bank and Gaza. economic support “which does not replace the need for a political horizon” added the American president.
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The Palestinian Authority has already presented five requests to the American president: the reestablishment of a political horizon between Israel and the Palestinians, the reopening of an American consulate in East Jerusalem, andexert American pressure on the Israeli government to end the “escalation” against the Palestiniansrestore US financial aid to the Palestinian Authority, remove the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from the list of terrorist organizations and reopen the organization’s diplomatic mission in Washington.
But the Palestinians do not expect much from this visit. Few are interested in it, because the frustration persists. American discourses with regard to the Palestinians resemble each other, year after year. Dimitri Diliani of the revolutionary council thus denounces the “far too optimistic and unrealistic statements made by the helpless and hopeless Palestinian Authority”. A “wish list”according to him.
Dimitri Diliani asks for action: “VSProblems are major obstacles to peace. They require at least four or five days of continuous discussions.” There are many who, like him, only see Joe Biden as a supporter of Israel, someone who will only consolidate the status quo – occupancy.
Biden’s visit is the latest episode of blessing Israeli apartheid while offering certain Palestinians bread crumbs to forgo liberation. Excuse me if we are not giddy, this show has been running since the 90s and should have been canceled long ago.
— Salem Barahmeh (@Barahmeh) July 11, 2022
“His objective is clearly to try to create a military and intelligence alliance between Israel and certain Arab countries to the detriment of the Palestinians”, annoys Mustafa Barghouti, co-founder of the Palestinian National Initiative. And if there is something wrong with the Palestinians, it’s American military aid to the Israeli army: Washington grants four billion dollars to it every year. A phrase that comes up often: Biden “offers only breadcrumbs to some Palestinians.”