The return of American president Donald Trump was welcomed by some parts of the Israeli public who considers his second term as a return of the non -critical support of Israel.
Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden, supported Israel in his war against Gaza, as well as his invasion of Lebanon, but the occasional reluctance of his administration concerning the Israel genocide in Gaza, who would now have killed nearly 62,000 people, was one of the Israel of unhappy public Israel.
Trump’s involvement in a cease-fire that led to the release of certain Israeli captives of Gaza and its enthusiastic suggestions of ethnically Gaza cleaning have raised Israeli hopes as its second term will be as pro-Israeli as the first.
Here’s how he helped support Israel.
Diplomacy
Trump’s diplomatic movements and appointments reflect its unwavering support to Israel.
He wants the American ambassador to Israel to be the governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, who opposes the solution to two states which would give Palestine a state and even wondered if “one thing like that A Palestinian exists ”.
Trump’s previous ambassador to Israel was the hard and pro-establishment line, David Friedman.
Trump also appointed Elise Stefanik as an American ambassador to the United Nations. Stefanik says that Israel has a “biblical right” in the West Bank.
In 2017, Trump said that all Jerusalem was the capital of Israel, despite the Palestinian plans to declare occupying Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine.
He also moved the Embassy of the United States of Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Under Trump, the United States has reduced all funding from the UN Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA, in 2018.
One of the principles on which UNRWA was founded was the Palestinian right to return home, they were ethnically cleaned by Israel when he occupied Palestinian lands.
In November 2019, citing anti-Israeli prejudices, the United States was the only country to vote with Israel against the eight resolutions of the 4th United Nations Committee aimed at supporting Palestinian rights, condemning the Israeli colonies, confirming the protections of refugees, guaranteeing the supply of humanitarian aid, and strengthen existing international law
In 2020, Trump put pressure for the Abraham agreements, normalizing relations between Israel and water, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco. This prompted economic ties and security cooperation with Israel in exchange for American aid or diplomatic support.
Support for Israeli territorial expansion
The illegal colonies of Israel on Palestinian lands and other measures to extend its territory were also firmly supported by Trump.
In May 2019, Trump reversed decades of American policy and said that the Golan Heights occupied were an Israeli territory.
Then, in November 2019, the American Secretary of State Mike Pompeo canceled the legal opinion of his department of 1978 according to which the colonies were illegal, claiming that “the establishment of Israeli civil colonies in the West Bank is not, in Self, incompatible with international law ”. International law is clear on illegality.
The following year, Pompeo said the decision to annex the Palestinian territory of the West Bank was Israeli.
The Trump administration was then silent on construction to extend the illegal colony of Givat Hamatos near Jerusalem, which cut certain parts of the city claimed by the Palestinians.
The United States was also silent when the construction of new colonies in the city of Flashpoint in Hebron began in December 2019, and the planners cited American politics as a reason to proceed.
In 2020, Trump presented the “peace plan for prosperity”, ostensibly a peace plan.
Trump’s plan placed Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, rejecting the Palestinian claims to occupy East Jerusalem.
He also considered that Israel annexed large parts of the West Bank, legitimizing many Israeli colonies deemed illegal under international law.
The little of the Palestinian state which was authorized in the “plan” was fragmented, with limited sovereignty and subject to the control of Israeli security.
The proposals also forced the Palestinians to meet strict conditions before the State is conferred on them, in particular the disarmament of Hamas, recognizing Israel as a Jewish State and renouncing resistance to Israeli occupation in exchange for economic economic investment But no sovereignty.
The plan was massively rejected by the Palestinians.
Attack international courts
In 2019, the ICC announced that there was a reasonable basis to investigate potential war crimes by Israel in occupied West Bank, in East Jerusalem-East and Gaza.
The Trump administration has opposed it strongly, defending Israel and taking measures to undermine the court.
The following year, faced with the strident international opposition, he imposed sanctions on CPI officials, including chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, restricting their visas and freeing their assets.
Confrontations with the regional rivals of Israel
During its first four years, the Trump administration was particularly focused on the confrontation of many regional rivals of Israel.
At the start of its existence, the Trump administration led to increased sanctions to the Lebanese Hezbollah group, targeting its global financial network and threatening sanctions and closings against anyone who finances the group.
Hezbollah has faced Israel many times.
In 2018, after campaigns by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump withdrew from the 2015 Iranian nuclear agreement (JCPOA), reimposing strict economic sanctions against Iran in order to paralyze economically The regional decrease in Israel.
In April 2019, the United States appointed the Corps of the Islamic Revolution of Iran (IRGC) a “terrorist group”, in the hope of isolate it international and Increase Iran costs “for its support for terrorist activity”.
The following year, the United States went further, murdering the commander of the IRGC Qassem Soleimani, weakening the regional influence and the ability of Iran to occupy military positions in other countries in the region, Like Iraq and Syria, from where Israel felt threatened.
