In a letter to US President Joe Biden, a group of 19 democratic lawmakers addressed his administration and urged him to establish a bold framework to work on a two-state solution between ‘Israel’ and Palestine.
The group, led by Senator Tom Carper, called Biden to “recognize a nonmilitarized Palestinian state that includes the West Bank and Gaza under the governance of revitalized and reformed Palestinian Authority (PA).
The senators believe that the road to enduring peace in the region depends entirely on the two-state solution—the establishment of a Palestinian state- despite that increasing financial support for settlements has greatly undermined the viability of a two-state solution.
They included in the letter a set of governmental and institutional reforms for the PA, and the requirement of the PA to recognize ‘Israel’ as well as “renounce Hamas”.
‘Israel’ wants the head of the PA’s intelligence apparatus, Majed Faraj, to be a potential post-war administrator of the besieged Gaza Strip, according to the Israeli media.
However, a survey this week, published by the Palestinian Center for Policy Survey and Research (PCPSR) and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), showed that 59% of Palestinians want Hamas to run post-war Gaza, while just 11% percent want PA President Mahmoud Abbas to administer the strip.
Diplomatic and political calls to establish a sovereign Palestinian state have been on the rise, but the urgency of humanitarian solutions rather than political ones has dominated discourse.
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