OPINION | A Palestinian state is Biden’s only hope to beat Trump in Michigan – By Michael Freund (Jerusalem Post) / Jan 27,2024
The Biden administration’s fixation with getting Israel to capitulate and agree to a Palestinian state has gone far beyond persistence and has now entered the realm of obsession.
With each passing week, you can hear the drumbeat growing louder as the Biden administration turns up the heat on Israel, inexplicably demanding in the middle of a war that Jerusalem agree to the establishment of a Palestinian state.
In a remarkably tone-deaf bit of diplomacy, various senior American policymakers have been reiterating that they view it as essential for the Jewish state to turn over territory to the Palestinians.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken insisted, apparently with a straight face, that Israel could not achieve “genuine security” without a “pathway to a Palestinian state.”
“The question now is,” he wondered aloud, “is Israeli society prepared to engage on these questions? Is it prepared to have that mindset?”
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