Palestinian Americans have been pressuring Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden to shift U.S. policy in favor of the Palestinians if he wins the election in November, Reuters reported on Thursday.
According to the report, one source said that the pressure campaign has not had any significant impact.
“The progressives want a full-throttle platform change—a pro-Palestinian flank, an anti-annexation flank—but there just isn’t appetite in the campaign so far,” the source said.
“If Mr. Biden (is) elected in November, we hope that it will be a totally different dynamic,” Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said last week, referring to U.S. President Donald Trump’s strengthening of ties with the Jewish state, which has included working with the Israeli government to chart the part of his “Peace to Prosperity” plan that allows for Jerusalem to extend sovereignty into parts of Judea and Samaria. The Trump administration also has cut aid to the Palestinian Authority over its “pay for slay” policy.