A collection of right-wing Israeli organizations this week launched a campaign telling US President Joe Biden to keep his hands off the Holy Land when he visits later this week.
There is concern in certain circles that Biden will try to repair America’s standing in the region, and in particular with the Palestinian Authority, by pushing for Israeli concessions.
Cognizant of this, the Palestinian leadership has been conducting its own campaign in recent days accusing Washington of helping to “entrench the Israeli occupation,” and demanding that Biden shift course and return to the path of the two-state solution.
Amidst all the talk of pending normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia, many also fear that the Americans will promise Israeli capitulation in Judea and Samaria (the so-called “West Bank”) and Jerusalem in return for such a dramatic development.
For the US to do these things wouldn’t be all that surprising. What’s got some Israelis worried is that the country’s current and interim prime minister, Yair Lapid, is more aligned with such thinking than his predecessors, Naftali Bennett and Benjamin Netanyahu.
