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No economic plan can substitute for a political agreement addressing the core issues driving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 1/6
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No showpiece economic conference can make up for the hundreds of millions of dollars in humanitarian assistance that this White House has already cruelly cut. 2/6
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It takes an unfathomable level of chutzpah for this administration to roll out an investment plan for Palestinians with photos of USAID programs that they themselves have recently cut. 3/6
No amount of promised investment will convince the Palestinian people to surrender their legitimate aspirations to civil rights, equality and self-determination in an independent state of their own. 4/6
This administration’s continued alienation of Palestinians and embrace of the far-right settler movement makes clear they are not serious about ending the occupation and achieving lasting peace. 5/6
The course they’re pursuing undermines US interests and further imperils Israel’s future as a democratic homeland for the Jewish people. 6/6
