Republicans and Democrats are unified in the belief that Muslims, Arabs, and Palestinians don't matter and deserve to die -- unless they're super rich and selling us oil, that is, like the Saudis.
There isn't any deep thought going on in American diplomatic and policymaking circles. 9/11 acted as a rubber stamp on their worst racist impulses and many never looked back.
At most, the Biden administration worried about how ironclad support for Israel would play with voters, and they ultimately decided they didn't give a fuck.
Despite talking up "the peace process," no modern Democratic president has shown any interest in the Palestinian side of the equation, preferring to hammer them with the Israeli government's cynical and sabotaging demands instead and using Hamas, who also negotiate in bad faith, as a pretext for endless genocidal violence against all Palestinians.
The Israeli government has made clear, repeatedly, it is not interested in a one or two state solution or any peace that includes the return of territory or the recognition of a Palestinian state, which renders negotiations pointless.
Nevertheless, it is bipartisan US policy to pretend this is not true and to blame all failures on Hamas, often insisting no negotiations are possible as long as Hamas exists, giving cover for Israel to continue attacking all Palestinians.
@gwynnion I feel you hit upon the root in your OP: pursuit of the resources that the world’s most ravenous economy tells itself it needs, is the point. Nothing stands in the way of that.
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