Commencing shortly after his inauguration, President Biden has been decreasing U.S. support for Israel that had existed under former President Trump.
Two more recent actions by the Biden administration make clear its reorientation of U.S. policy to resume Obama's opposition to Israel.
The 2001 Durban Declaration - a laboriously long resolution - was made by the "World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance." Its effect has been to single out Israel as a "Racist" state and affirms the Palestinians' key demand of a "Right" of all "Palestinians" - not the 700,000 who left in 1948, but at least six million of their descendants - to return to Israel.
It also adds the term "Occupied" to lands Israel controlled since the 1967 war, saying that one section of the report "Covers Israel within the 1949 Armistice Agreement line as well as Golan Heights and east Jerusalem territories that Israel occupied during the June 1967 war and where it later extended its domestic law, jurisdiction, and administration."
Biden visited Israel in 2010 to assure Israel that Obama was committed to its security after Obama's 2009 Cairo speech, in which Obama praised the Palestinians, quoted from the Koran, and said he wanted all U.S. troops out of Iraq by 2012.
Biden went to Israel to convince the Israelis of Obama's dedication to ensure Israel's security in regard to the growing Iranian nuclear threat and to visit Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Biden is committed to undoing Trump's revocation of the JCPOA. Obama had been pushing Israel to freeze the development of West Bank settlements, which Netanyahu refused to do.
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Monday, April 5, 2021
Biden Edges Away From Israel
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