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Jerusalem: As soon as he took office in 2017, US President Donald Trump embraced a policy based on unwavering support for Israel and multiplied decisions and steps that contradict decades of traditions of American diplomacy and international consensus.
In a new move, Mike Pompeo, on Thursday, became the first foreign minister to visit an Israeli settlement in the West Bank built on Palestinian lands occupied by Israel since 1967, and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
On February 15, 2017, a month after his inauguration as president, Trump said that Washington was no longer committed to the two-state solution, that is, the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
And in late March, the new US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said that “the denigration of Israel” at the United Nations was “over.”
In May, Trump visited Israel and Bethlehem in the West Bank. He stood in front of the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, in a move that was the first of its kind for an American president.
In early September, the Palestinians described the statements of the US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, as “unacceptable”, when he spoke of a “supposed occupation” of the Palestinian territories.
On December 6, 2017, Trump recognized all of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, sparking anger among the Palestinians and condemnation from the international community.
The development of this city, the holy, one of the most complex points of the conflict. The Palestinians are seeking to make East Jerusalem, which Israel captured and annexed in 1967, as the capital of the desired state.
On May 14, 2018, the transfer of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem coincided with the Hammam bath in the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli army killed some 60 Palestinians during organized demonstrations near the Gaza-Israel border fence. .
And then he declared to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that “America is no longer a mediator in the Middle East.”
On August 31, 2018, the United States announced that it would stop funding UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees), a week after it canceled more than $ 200 million in aid to the Palestinians.
On September 10, the United States announced the closure of the office of the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Washington, which served as the embassy of the Palestinian Authority to the United States.
On March 4, 2019, the Americans also closed the office of the United States consulate in Jerusalem, which served as a diplomatic mission for the Palestinians, and merged with the office of the United States Embassy in Jerusalem.
On March 25, 2019, Trump signed a decree at the White House in the presence of Benjamin Netanyahu, officially recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the occupied part of the Syrian Golan, which Israel formally annexed in 1981. The international community has never recognized this annexation .
Syria condemned the “flagrant attack” on its sovereignty.
On November 18, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that his country no longer considers Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank illegal.
“After considering all the arguments in this legal debate,” Pompeo said, the Trump administration concluded that “establishing settlements for Israeli civilians in the West Bank is not in itself incompatible with international law.”
On January 28, 2020, Donald Trump revealed a plan to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that envisages Israel annexing settlements in the West Bank, especially in the Jordan Valley.
The plan envisions that Jerusalem will remain “the indivisible capital of Israel” and proposes the establishment of the capital of a future Palestinian state in the suburbs of East Jerusalem.
On September 15 / September he signed the agreements of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to normalize relations with Israel in the White House.
Abu Dhabi said the agreement provides for the suspension of annexation of parts of the West Bank, but Benjamin Netanyahu said the suspension was a temporary matter.
The Palestinians denounced what they saw as “a stab in the back”.
On October 23, Donald Trump announced an agreement to normalize relations between Sudan and Israel.
On November 19 in Jerusalem, Mike Pompeo announced that the United States would take action against organizations linked to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, calling them “anti-Semitic.” He said that products from Israeli settlements in the West Bank that are exported to the United States will be labeled “Made in Israel.”
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