The study argues that the belief that Israel could maintain these deals while waging an all-out assault on Gaza was always unrealistic — and the events of the past year have confirmed that the future of the region will not be shaped by US-brokered backroom agreements but by the realities of power on the ground.
The US continues to disregard ‘historic Palestine’s population demographic advantage over her Zionist Occupier’ at her own peril. For it was Joe Biden’s determination to ignore his own Department of State’s ample warnings about the impact of the heightened ‘Settler belligerence in areas of nominal Palestinian-self-rule’ – that served prompt Yahya Sinwar’s bold and indeed in-large-part-successful, initiative.
Biden served and Trump continues to serve one and the same Grand Master – and the anti-war rebuke Eartha Kitt delivered to the former LBJ US President continues to ring true.