Now U.S. support for the “Palestinian” jihad will resume.
“Palestinians celebrate Trump’s defeat: ‘An evil has distanced itself from us,’” by Aaron Boxerman, Times of Israel, November 7, 2020:
Palestinians hailed the defeat of US President Donald Trump in glowing terms on Saturday night, with some calling it the end of “the worst era” for the Palestinian cause.
“There has never been anything worse than the Trump era. Salvation from it is an achievement,” said Nabil Shaath, a key aide to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and a former PA foreign minister
Senior Palestinian Liberation Organization official Hanan Ashrawi cheered what she called a “detrumped” United States.
“Trumpism must be carefully scrutinized & remedied to restore the human, moral & legal equilibrium within and beyond the US. Such phenomena do not emerge from a vacuum.”
“Now is the time for holistic & bold therapeutics,” Ashrawi said in a statement….
“We will take immediate steps to restore economic and humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people, address the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, reopen the U.S. consulate in East Jerusalem and work to reopen the PLO mission in Washington,” Vice President-elect Kamala Harris told Arab American News in late October.
Observers, however, have expressed skepticism that the Palestinian cause will be a central priority for the incoming Biden administration. The new administration faces a raging pandemic at home and numerous foreign policy challenges abroad — making it unlikely that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will take center stage.
In a rare statement, exiled Fatah strongman Mohammad Dahlan praised Biden’s victory over Trump as “a positive development which will put an end to the many dangers of the Trump-Netanyahu alliance to the Palestinian cause, as well as providing new horizons to the path of a new peace based on the two-state solution, as Biden promised personally during the campaign.”…