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Israeli-Palestinian conflict gives Biden foreign policy headache
BBC News ^
| May 15, 2021
| By Barbara Plett Usher
Posted on 05/15/2021 8:22:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Israel's air strikes on the militant Hamas movement in Gaza have forced the Middle East on to Joe Biden's agenda amid new questions about how his emphasis on human rights applies to Palestinians.
It has also laid bare the extent to which the Israeli right has been empowered in occupied East Jerusalem during the presidency of Donald Trump. Unrest there sparked wider battles, and could draw the Biden administration more deeply into the longstanding Israeli-Palestinian conflict even after this latest seismic eruption abates.
That's a prospect President Biden and his senior advisers would like to avoid.
They've made clear their diplomatic priorities lie elsewhere. Until now they've adopted a low-key minimalist approach in this graveyard of American-led peace initiatives, quietly trying to restore some elements of US policy upended by the Trump administration's unabashedly pro-Israel stance.
That has meant concentrating on repairing ruptured relations with the Palestinians, and voicing rhetorical support for a viable Palestinian state as key to a lasting peace with Israel.
But they've calculated the prospects for a new round of negotiations as bleak, and are determined to shift the focus of American foreign policy to China.
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Maybe he’ll have another brain bleed over this
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05/15/2021 8:26:54 AM PDT
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digger48
To: digger48
“He” ain’t running the show...Rice/Jarrett /Obama are...and THEY have been vewy, Vewy quiet.
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posted on
05/15/2021 8:29:42 AM PDT
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goodnesswins
(The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
05/15/2021 8:29:51 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I guess Barbie of The Beeb doesn't know about Joek The Vegetable if she thinks he has problems over this...
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posted on
05/15/2021 8:30:05 AM PDT
by
kiryandil
(China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Biden et al do not realize that the game they are attempting to play is already over.
The Palestinians have lost all real support except from Iran
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posted on
05/15/2021 8:32:36 AM PDT
by
bert
( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
To: LouAvul; Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
05/15/2021 8:33:01 AM PDT
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kiryandil
(China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
To: kiryandil
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posted on
05/15/2021 8:33:49 AM PDT
by
be-baw
To: kiryandil
To: goodnesswins
Don't worry, joek - Corn Pop knows what that's for.
Bend over.
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posted on
05/15/2021 8:36:11 AM PDT
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kiryandil
(China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
It’s no problem being soft and ineffective. It’s what the world expects of Democrats, who can only be brave when their victims can’t fight back. It’s their idea of courage.
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posted on
05/15/2021 8:37:12 AM PDT
by
Spok
(There are many more things that frighten us than can cause us harm.)
To: be-baw
Moneybagg Yoe approves this message.
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posted on
05/15/2021 8:38:24 AM PDT
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kiryandil
(China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
He’s weak.
He’s disengaged.
His staff is full of politicians and buddies, folks that know they have the answers because they have been inside their government bubble and have all these fancy ideological ideas, but are in reality clueless.
Biden will cause the Middle East to destabilize.
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05/15/2021 8:40:56 AM PDT
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Red6
To: Spok
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posted on
05/15/2021 8:41:05 AM PDT
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kiryandil
(China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
biden’s foreign policy gives us a headache.
To: Sacajaweau
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posted on
05/15/2021 8:43:09 AM PDT
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kiryandil
(China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
To: goodnesswins
To: MulberryDraw
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posted on
05/15/2021 8:46:31 AM PDT
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kiryandil
(China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
What headache? He planned this.
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