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Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/06/joe-biden-israel-palestine-conflict-479405
Biden Is Not Planning to Solve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
(Politico) Nahal Toosi - Unlike Barack Obama and Donald Trump, Joe Biden hasn't named a special envoy to focus on the Israeli-Palestinian portfolio. Biden has no plans for any sort of peace conference, or even a peace process, anytime soon. Aside from restoring some aid to the Palestinians, Biden and his team are signaling that the conflict is simply not a priority. Lower-level Biden administration officials are now in regular touch with Palestinian counterparts. But Biden has not yet spoken to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, even though he has spoken to Netanyahu. Reopening the Palestinians' diplomatic mission in Washington is legally complicated. A law prevents the Palestinians from opening an office in the U.S. unless they pay hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties levied through U.S. courts over past attacks whose victims included Americans.