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Biden didn't make Israeli-Palestinian talks a priority. Arab leaders say region now paying the price

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2y ago

Biden didn't make Israeli-Palestinian talks a priority. Arab leaders say region now paying the price

apnews.com /article/israel-palestinian-hamas-peace-accord-war-d930f103b33a4b1e40dd1da5d9c8b05b

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I had a hard fart this morning and immediately yelled Joe Biden.
Damn, maybe y'all should read the article instead of mindlessly down voting a Biden critical headline.
- I think most, like me, read the article and found it wanting. The USA has limited resources and has to decide what’s going to get priority. The Biden Administration’s decision to focus its foreign policy on countering growing Chinese global influence is a decision that has to be made in the context of these limited resources. So blaming the US for a war that both sides have wanted and worked toward for 50 years while every US President has put in far more resources to try to prevent that war seems like the journalist doesn’t understand the basics of practically anything having to do with foreign policy. But must be the USA’s fault because we didn’t decide to spend more of our limited resources on a conflict that never goes away.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON (AP) — From its first months in office, the Biden administration made a distinctive decision on its Middle East policy: It would deprioritize a half-century of high-profile efforts by past U.S. presidents, particularly Democratic ones, to broker a broad and lasting peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.
Since Richard Nixon, successive U.S. administrations have tried their hands at Camp David summits, shuttle diplomacy and other big-picture tries at coaxing Israeli and Palestinian leaders into talks to settle the disputes that underlie 75 years of Middle East tensions.
They advocated for more modest improvements in Palestinian freedoms and living conditions under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hardline government, which has encouraged settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and which includes coalition partners that oppose the U.S.-backed two-state solution.
Sissi, who fears the Israeli military offensive will push Gaza’s 2.3 million people across the border into Egypt, cast blame on the near-disappearance of any international pressure on Netanyahu’s government and Palestinians to return to negotiations.
Underscoring his administration’s diminished emphasis on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Biden’s call to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas this past weekend amid the building Gaza war was the American leader’s first since taking office.
Additionally, the Biden administration’s immediate and all-in rallying to Israel’s mounting defense after Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacres may only heighten Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s desire to lock in that kind of security alliance with the U.S. for the kingdom, many analysts are arguing.
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If I read this correctly, the US has spent 50 years trying to broker a peace deal and neither side has ever been able to come to agreement.
To me that sounds like a peaceful settlement is not actually possible as the only "peace" either side will accept is that the other side ceases to exist.
So the current administration decided to slow its efforts in this area and like clockwork, the smouldering tensions between the two burst into the current round of senseless bloodshed.
And this is somehow the US gov's fault?