With just a week left until possibly the most highly anticipated US elections in history, I’ve arrived in Amman, Jordan on my way to the West Bank excited to feel out the reaction there to Senators Obama and McCain and this heated race.
The Palestinian-Israeli issue is always a big one in a US government. But to what degree are people in Palestine paying attention to the transition in the US administration? With the difficulties of daily life – from putting food on the table to Israeli travel restrictions – do Palestinians have any room for concern about elections half a world away? Surely the American government has significant impact on the daily lives of Palestinians and on Israeli policy, and my experience visiting Ramallah over my lifetime leads me to believe that people realize this.
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