Antiwar.com Original
There hadn’t been much talk of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Nor had there
been serious attempts at diplomacy, of Washington brokering a settlement. The
reasons were manifold: part apathy, part outrage-exhaustion, part Donald Trump’s
intentionally ditching the illusion of America-the-honest-broker and decisively
swinging
support to one side (Israel), and part Joe Biden’s desire to avoid the controversy
of getting embroiled in seemingly hopeless Mideast conflict third-rails. Yet
despite increasingly right-wing Israeli intransigence, and American apathy or
antagonism, the Palestinian people – not their divided and corrupt Fatah or
Hamas "leaders" – refused to be silenced. Few Western commentators