ed note–again, there is nothing new, novel or ‘explosive’ about this.
It was DJT’s planned ‘Deal of the Century’ that functioned as the nuclear reactor in generating all the political noise/energy against him for 5 years, and those whose claim to fame is their status as ‘J-woke’ who did not see the obvious for that half-decade timeframe and are now scrambling to come up with some rational explanation as to exactly why the organized forces of anti-Gentilism (which they claimed for 5 years just LOVED DJT) sought fit to see the election/ascension of Biden are simply too incompetent to participate in any exercise rooted in the analysis of what are oftentimes very complicated geopolitical issues.
jpost
The Biden administration is not expected to try to push a peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians, a high-level government source said.
“There probably will not be a top-down peace plan,” the source said.
The top echelons of Israel’s government were not surprised by the Biden administration’s talk about separating the Israeli embassy from the consulate to the Palestinians and funding UNRWA, the agency for Palestinian refugees, reversing Trump administration policies, as these were policies announced on the campaign trail.
The source pointed to remarks by US envoy Richard Mills at the UN Security Council last week, in which he emphasized the importance of a two-state solution, but didn’t call for it to come in the short term.
Though Mills emphasized the importance of maintaining a two-state solution’s viability, he did not refer to pre-1967 lines or what the contours of such a solution would be.
“The US will urge Israel’s government and the Palestinian Authority to avoid unilateral steps that make the two-state solution more difficult,” Mills said.
The Israeli source highlighted the fact that Mills specifically spoke out against “incitement to violence [and] providing compensation to individuals in prison for acts of terrorism,” a reference to the Palestinians’ “Martyrs Fund.”
Mills spoke instead of Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Biden’s choice for ambassador to the UN.
A day later, during her confirmation hearing at the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Thomas-Greenfield barely touched on the Palestinians or a two-state solution, mentioning only restoring funding to UNRWA, though Israel came up repeatedly.
Thomas-Greenfield said the anti-Israel BDS movement “verges on antisemitism and it is important that they not be allowed to have a voice at the United Nations.”
The ambassador-designate said she plans to be “standing with Israel, standing against unfair targeting of Israel, the relentless [UN] resolutions that are proposed against Israel unfairly.”