Thread by @zahahassan

.@SecBlinken was in Ramallah to talk abt aid for #Gaza (& to ask the PA to stop the #ICC case ag #Israel for war crimes during 2014 attack on Gaza). Bomb, rebuild, repeat—& protect Israel—shldn’t be US policy. Here is a better approach that centers rts.1/8
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@SecBlinken also discussed the PA ending the practicing of providing social welfare benefits to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails & to families. But how do Palestinian 'Prisoner Payments' Work? via @YouTube 2/8

Some important political context for the social welfare payments is provided by Halla Keir @hmkeir1 here 👇3/8

.@POTUS has talked abt "equal measures of freedom, democracy and prosperity" for Palestinians. Reimagining US policy that supports rights requires understanding the role Congress plays. See this timeline of the US-Palestine bilateral relationship. 4/ 8
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Fixing what makes US policy toward Palestinians dysfunctional requires adopting an approach that prioritizes people over peace processing. @YousefMunayyer & I talk about how to do this here. 5/8
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Security assistance to Israel must also be brought into line with US federal laws and human rights standards as @joshruebner, @SalihBooker and I discuss here. 6/8
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Regardless of whether policymakers make the changes that need to be made, the Israeli-Palestinian "conflict" has morphed into a rights struggle from the river to the sea as Nathan Brown discusses here. 7/8
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For more common sense policy prescriptions toward a durable solution for Israel-Palestine, see the @CarnegieEndow and @USMEP paper for how to overhaul the US approach to peacemaking here. 8/8
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