Palestinians celebrate Trump’s “defeat”: ‘An evil has distanced itself from us’

Of course. Just like when the Twin Towers went down in New York City. The neo-Nazi Palestinian Authority will receive a windfall from American tax payers under Joe Biden. Just awful.

Palestinians celebrate Trump’s defeat: ‘An evil has distanced itself from us’

Ramallah and Gaza leaders euphoric about loathed incumbent’s loss, though unsure how a Biden administration will advance their cause

By Times of Israel, November 7, 2020

Palestinians hailed the defeat of US President Donald Trump in glowing terms on Saturday night, with some calling it the end of “the worst era” for the Palestinian cause.

“There has never been anything worse than the Trump era. Salvation from it is an achievement,” said Nabil Shaath, a key aide to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and a former PA foreign minister

Senior Palestinian Liberation Organization official Hanan Ashrawi cheered what she called a “detrumped” United States.

“Trumpism must be carefully scrutinized & remedied to restore the human, moral & legal equilibrium within and beyond the US. Such phenomena do not emerge from a vacuum.”

Palestinian Authority officials had been openly hoping for Trump to be defeated by challenger Joe Biden, who was confirmed as president-elect on Saturday. The PA has consistently charged that the Trump administration was lopsidedly biased toward Israel, and severed all dealings with it after it recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in December 2017. The Trump administration saw Ramallah as intransigent and unwilling to compromise.

Shaath’s statement, much like Ashrawi’s, did not congratulate Biden, however. In an interview with The Times of Israel before the November election, Shaath had said that much about Biden’s position on the Palestinian cause was “still unclear.”

Palestinians were angered by what they considered lopsided Trump support for Israel, including the Jerusalem recognition and the subsequent US decision to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a peace plan which they contended did not provide them with a state, and deep cuts to US aid to Ramallah.