To Trump, ”AMERICA’s most proisraeliska president”, have put great energy on helping the Country to survive as the prime minister has not only, or mainly, been driven by the love for Israel.
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It is that always Trumps political self-interest. He is out to win over AMERICA’s jewish voters, who are mostly liberal democrats. But mainly to consolidate its position in his most important stödtrupp; the conservative or evangelical christians, which they most proisraeliska voters are to be found.
But he also wants to strengthen the global axis of authoritarian högernationalister and populists who have Trump as a figurehead; in addition to Netanyahu is included in the category of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Matteo Salvini in Italy and Jaroslaw Kaczynski in Poland.
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington in march 2019. Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP
from the united states rained down on the israeli right-wing government in the last two years:
• Trump pulled the united states out of kärnenergiavtalet with Iran and has reintroduced sanctions against Tehran.
• the united states has ”recognized” the Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and decided to move the embassy there.
• Trump has withdrawn all financial support to the palestinians, only 360 million dollars to flyktingorganet UNRWA, and then 60 million to the palestinian authority’s security service.
• Just before the election, Netanyahu won a new gift: the united states recognized Israel’s sovereignty over the syrian Golanhöjden, occupied since 1967. Netanyahu receipted by talking about the annexation of parts of the occupied palestinian west bank.
very popular in Israel, and thus he has acted as a boost for Netanyahu, who himself has major problems in the hemmaopinionen.
Trump has now given Netanyahu a green light to finally kill all hope of a two-state solution. Thus he gives Netanyahu a free hand to forever bury the dream of a free Palestine alongside Israel.
In the extension, we see instead a state with two kinds of inhabitants; israeli citizens with full rights – and the palestinians without rights.