By David Singer ——Bio and Archives--November 30, 2020
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"in line with relevant UN resolutions, international law and bilateral agreements in pursuit of the vision of two states."Guterres will be exhorting international support for UNSC Resolution 2334--which Obama and Biden shamefully failed to veto on December 23, 2016--abstaining instead--as they were departing the White House. The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) seemingly does not have any interest in Trump's Peace Plan--a PLO official recently declaring:
"We have received many positive messages from the Biden team in the past few days. We are looking forward to opening a new page with the Biden administration after the damage caused by the Trump administration."The PLO refused to negotiate with Israel on Trump's Peace Plan even before its details were published last January.
"According to Israeli political sources, Biden's team intends to reinstate negotiations between Israel and the PLO on the basis of the long-mordant Oslo accords. The sources claim Biden is even taking Oslo mediator Dennis Ross out of cold storage for that purpose. Ross's longtime deputy Aaron David Miller penned an op-ed in Canada's National Post this week where he argued that President Trump has been bad for Israel and good for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu."Another Biden favourite presently in cold storage--failed negotiator Martin Indyk--wrote this week:
"The first priority is to repair the damage wrought by the Trump administration. Trump's "deal" should be taken off the table when he departs the White House. Relations should be restored with the PLO and the Palestinian Authority, which were severed in the wake of Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. U.S. aid to projects that provide vital support to the Palestinian people should be revived. The U.S. Embassy should stay in Jerusalem, Israel's designated capital, but Biden should declare that he also recognizes that Palestinians aspire to have the capital of their state in East Jerusalem"
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David Singer is an Australian Lawyer, a Foundation Member of the International Analyst Network and Convenor of Jordan is Palestine International—an organization calling for sovereignty of the West Bank and Gaza to be allocated between Israel and Jordan as the two successor States to the Mandate for Palestine. Previous articles written by him can be found at: jordanispalestine.blogspot.com