Biden administration dramatically softens the sanctions it imposed on the seven Israelis from the Israel Defense Forces and makes it clear that they will be able to use their bank accounts.
Biden administration dramatically softens the sanctions it imposed on the seven Israelis from the Israel Defense Forces and makes it clear that they will be able to use their bank accounts.
So they threatened to hurt themselves more to get him to back down? PA is the only thing keeping the West Bank militants at bay. That’s absolutely pathetic on Biden’s part.
I think you misunderstand, Netanyahu and his allies want extremists in charge. They have spent the last two decades trying to delegitimize the PA because they are a moderate Palestinian government, and the same two decades propping up Hamas. When extremists are in charge, Netanyahu knows he can more easily justify killing Palestinians and taking Palestinian land
The more secular resistance started to breakdown in the 90s, which led to Israel’s strategy to support the election of a more fundamentalist authority for the Gaza Strip. The authority they assisted into power was Hamas. At the same time, they propped up the PA in the West Bank. The goal was to divide and conquer: Diminish the united Palestinian identity, and convince non-militants to stand on the sidelines while the militants went to fight and die in the Gaza Strip. Once the Strip is dealt with, they will only have to deal with the non-militants in the West Bank, which in this time has grown reliant on Israel’s part of their relationship. Due to playing a part in this, many claim that the PA leaders are corrupt and have sold out Palestine.
Now, while they are struggling and overstretched in the Gaza Strip, why would Israel want to get rid of the self-destructively pacifist symbolic leaders of the West Bank? That’s my thoughts on it.