It is widely assumed that U.S. Middle East policy seeks to foster mutual recognition between Israel and a nascent Palestinian entity.
That is not what we see in U.S. policy today.
The Palestinian Authority’s Palestinian Security Forces (PSF), trained by the U.S. to fight Arab terrorists, instead carry out daily attacks against Jews. The PSF is dominated by the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, designated a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) by the U.S. government.