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Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel s US correspondent based in New York
(L-R) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Joe Biden and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. (Collage/AP)
The Biden administration will reportedly push for a two-state solution based on the pre-1967 lines, with mutually agreed upon land swaps, reinstating US policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to more traditionally held positions than those of former president Donald Trump.
A memo titled “The US Palestinian Reset and the Path Forward,” which was revealed Wednesday to the Abu Dhabi-based The National, also showed that the Biden administration is planning on announcing a $15 million aid package in coronavirus-related humanitarian assistance for the Palestinians as early as this month.
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A Palestinian pupil walks past United Nations Relief and Works Agency, (UNRWA) and USAID humanitarian aid, on June 6, 2010 in the Shatie refugee camp in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)
A US State Department spokesman said Tuesday that the previous administration’s slashing of aid to the Palestinians had failed to produce results and reiterated the new American leadership’s intention to restore such financial assistance.
“The suspension of aid to the Palestinian people has neither produced political progress, nor secured concessions from the Palestinian leadership. It has only harmed innocent Palestinians,” Ned Price said at a press briefing.
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Palestinian Chairman Mahmoud Abbas arrives at a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah, May 7, 2020. (Flash90)
The United States plans to resume financial aid to the Palestinian Authority, having determined that the decision by the Trump administration to slash it has failed to produce the desired results and was therefore ineffective, a State Department official said Tuesday.
Prior to former President Donald Trump’s 2018 decision to cut aid to the Palestinian Authority over their refusal to engage with its peace efforts, the U.S. was the PA’s single largest donor country and also gave hundreds of millions of dollars in annual funding to the United Nations Works and Relief Agency, which handles Palestinian refugees and their descendants across the Middle East.