President Biden has taken steps to reverse the Trump-era policy in the Middle East by throwing government support behind finding a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine.
In a virtual speech to the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, the acting US Ambassador to the United Nations, Richard Mills, said that the one-week-old government supports a “viable Palestinian state”, but that he “supports his steadfast support for Israel. “will maintain – indicating the delicacy. balance they will try to juggle.
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The Trump administration closed the Palestinian Liberation Organization office in Washington, DC, froze all federal contributions to the UN Relief and Works Agency – providing support to Palestinian refugees, and moved the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a bottleneck for Palestinians who also view Jerusalem as a holy city that should be in Palestine.
But former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also helped draft a peace proposal that would allow Israel to maintain control of the West Bank, which the United Nations has considered an illegal occupation since 1967.
Mills realized the challenge facing Biden’s government when they tried to bridge a gap that had to be reached since the founding of Israel in 1948.
But the acting US ambassador also said that the Biden government ‘is the best way to secure Israel’s future as a democratic and Jewish state’, by securing their relationship with Palestine.
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He also praised the diplomatic ties forged by the Trump administration between Israel and several Middle Eastern countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco.
Although these achievements are likely to be attributed to one of Trump’s greatest successes as president, Palestine regards these normalized relations as a betrayal of Arab nations.
“We hope it will be possible to start working to slowly build trust on both sides to create an environment in which we can once again help promote a solution,” Mills said Tuesday.
Mills told the 15-body panel that the US was not seeking to reverse Trump-era policies simply to appease the Palestinian government, but to secure security in the region.
“We are not doing these steps as a favor to the Palestinian leadership,” Mills said. “US aid benefits millions of ordinary Palestinians and helps maintain a stable environment that benefits both Palestinians and Israelis.”
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The acting ambassador also told the UN panel that they would try to normalize ties between the Jewish state and the surrounding Arab countries, but noted that it was “not a substitute for Israeli and Palestinian peace”.
Despite the clear intention of the Biden government to reverse most Trump-era policies in the way the US works with Israel, Mills did not say they would remove the US embassy from Jerusalem.