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    Analysis: Palestinians feel increasingly disillusioned by Biden’s approach

    by Tracy Wilkinson and Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times Jul 14, 2022 4 minutes
    This picture taken on July 6, 2022, shows a mural depicting slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed while covering an Israeli army raid in Jenin in May, drawn along Israel's controversial separation barrier in the biblical city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.

    JERUSALEM — The short ride that takes President Joe Biden from Jerusalem to Bethlehem passes an enormous mural of a smiling woman, wearing a flak jacket, yellow paint giving highlights to her chestnut hair.

    The painting depicts the Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, shot to death in May, probably by Israeli forces. The Biden administration’s reaction — a muted condemnation, an inconclusive investigation — is the latest in a long list of grievances Palestinians have with the current U.S. government.

    For decades, Middle East diplomacy has usually revolved around the Palestinian demand for statehood and how to obtain it.

    Yet, in Biden’s four-day trip this week to Israel, the occupied West Bank and

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