23 November, 2020
Dear Mr. Blinken,
Congratulations!
Like many US advocacy organizations that focus on foreign policy, we are delighted at the promise of change that
your new administration brings.
While we are well aware of the challenges and priorities that your administration faces, both domestically and
overseas, we urge you to keep Israeli-Palestinian relations high up on your agenda. Should you conclude that the
time is not ripe now for a full-fledged Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative, we urge you to consider that time is
running out on the two-state solution that President-elect Biden strongly supports. Developments on the ground –
sanctioned and even encouraged by the outgoing administration – are severely jeopardizing a future two-state
solution to the conflict. They must be reversed.
We at Americans for Peace now, the sister-organization of Israel’s peace movement Shalom Achshav (Peace Now), are
writing to share with you our alarm at the current state of US policy on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, to offer
some initial actions to address the wreckage left behind by the Trump administration, and to affirm our commitment
to work closely with the Biden-Harris transition team, and subsequently with the new administration, to advance the
cause of Palestinian-Israeli peace.