R. David Harden, a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama’s special envoy for Middle East peace, and Larry Garber, who served as the USAID mission director to the West Bank and Gaza have recently penned an article in the New York Times arguing that, to achieve peace and end the war on Gaza, ‘The U.S. Must Embrace Palestinian Statehood Now’.
This NY Times article calls upon President Biden to do the same thing that rank and file ALP members have called upon an incoming Labor government to do in Australia since 2018, namely recognise the State of Palestine.
Being an article written by Americans for an iconic American newspaper, the NY Times, it suggests that only American recognition “would confer national legitimacy on the Palestinian people”, coming as it would from “the leader........