Neither Trump nor Biden seem willing to address the root causes of the Palestinian struggle and regional instability.
When it comes to Middle East policy, especially as it relates to U.S. support for Israel, Trump’s vision for U.S. involvement in the region is only marginally different from Biden’s.When it comes to Middle East policy, especially as it relates to U.S. support for Israel, Trump’s vision for U.S. involvement in the region is only marginally different from Biden’s.
The one thing that struck me when I listened to Biden and Trump is how totally unaware they are of how horrifying their actions — and the actions of the U.S. Congress — are to most of the world. ,” which would have distinguished him from his predecessor. But this pledge disappeared into thin air as Biden supported and defended Israel’s atrocities in Gaza even as the International Court of Justice deemed them plausibly genocidal and ordered Israel to halt its assault on Rafah and immediately allow aid trucks to reach the people of Gaza.
Like the Trump administration before it, the Biden administration’s main focus in the Middle East is not halting the Israeli assault on Gaza, nor is it finding a solution that would end Israel’s 76 years of terror and denial of Palestinian rights — the only way to achieve stability and regional security in the Middle East. Its number one aim is to continue and advance the Arab-Israeli normalization project that Trump has started and building a U.S.-backed anti-Iran coalition.
The Biden administration continued to enable Israel, supporting its current assault on Gaza and the death, total destruction and displacement of 80 percent of Gaza’s population. The administration used its veto power to block UN Security Council ceasefire resolutions and continually supplied weapons and ammunition after October 7, resulting in a massive increase in the death toll from the relentless bombardment of Gaza and from Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war.
While Trump’s plan was not one that any Palestinian leader would seriously consider, Biden had no appetite for peace plans even though he talked about the “two-state solution” at every opportunity — without a plan or the wisdom to know that the two-state solution is long dead.In an election year that also witnessed a huge outpouring of support for Palestine — on university campuses and in cities and towns around the U.S. — the Palestine issue has risen to the fore in an unprecedented way.
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