“According to the US Consulate in Jerusalem’s website, the United States has been the largest donor of aid to the Palestinians since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1994. This aid has totaled around $600 million annually in recent years.” timesofisrael.com/how-much-aid-d…
In the wake of their refusal to end the payments to terrorists—a violation of the Oslo Accords which created the Authority and remains the basis for its funding—the US administration and the US Congress has cut some,but not all, of this aid.
Further, your claim that those offers were made “to benefit Israel” is dubious. Indeed, offers for the creation of a Palestinian state have been made *before* Israel was recreated. In 1937 after the Peel Commission Report,Arabs were offered a second state out of Mandate Palestine
The first state being Transjordan, today’s Jordan, which took the majority of the land set aside for a “Jewish national home” and made an Arab state out of it in 1921.
After the Peel Commission, Arabs were offered the majority of the land that was left for a “Palestinian Arab” state. They rejected it. And rejected a UN partition plan that would’ve given them the majority of the land in 1947, choosing a war of annihilation instead
Additional offers and entreaties were made, in various forms and from various parties, in the next half century.
Offers in 2000, 2001 and 2008 were done under US auspices. The latter offer included 94% of the “West Bank,” a capital in eastern Jerusalem, and land swaps for the remaining percentage—in addition to Gaza which was ruled entirely by Hamas, following Israel’s withdrawal in 05
In 2014 and in 2016, the US proposed talks based on that 2008 offer. They, like those offers, were rejected without so much as a counteroffer by the Palestinian Authority
The PA’s refusal to engage in bilateral negotiations violates the terms of the Oslo Accords. As does their insistence on promoting anti-Jewish violence and terror via payments and official media.
The pattern of rejectionism goes all the the way back to 1920 and 1921,in which Arabs massacres Jews in Jerusalem and Jaffa and refused to serve on the advisory councils being created by the British. During the former instance, Arab leaders in Mandate Palestine were petitioning
To join the Syrian Mandate. Indeed, Palestinian “pioneer” Amin al-Husseini—a future Nazi collaborator—hailed King Faisal of the Hashemites as his leader during the Nebi Musa riots of April 1920.
But hey, you can ignore this century long pattern of rejectionism and support for anti-Jewish violence, if it makes you feel better. The fact remains: Israel has, on numerous occasions, accepted a “two-state solution.” But Palestinian leaders have *never* accepted a Jewish state.
My facts “are straight.” Yours aren’t.
