Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’s bleating during US President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank has of course achieved nothing apart from entrenching his subjugation to Israeli colonialism. “Our confidence in you and your administration is very great,” Abbas told Biden. “And we assure you of our readiness to work with you, hand in hand, in order to achieve comprehensive and just peace based on international legitimacy and the Arab Peace Initiative and the signed agreements between us and Israel.” In turn, Biden might have been playing upon PA officials’ meagre requests when he said that, “There must be a political horizon that the Palestinian people can actually see or at least feel. We can’t allow … Continue reading Abbas is endorsing an altered status quo after Biden’s visit