The Trump administration is blowing the whistle on the Palestine Liberation Organisation, and it would be hard to identify a more overdue reality check in US foreign policy.
The administration announced yesterday that it is closing the PLO’s Washington office, citing lack of progress on peace negotiations. The PLO began as a terrorist organisation but was allowed to open an office in Washington in 1994 after the Oslo Accords produced hope for a new era of reconciliation between the PLO and Israel.
That hope has never been fulfilled, notably since the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat began the second intifada after walking away from the historic and generous Israeli peace offer brokered by Bill Clinton in 2000.
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