If there is one leader who impatiently waited to be able to congratulate Donald Trump on his re-election, it is the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Certainly, their relationship, at the end of the former president’s first term, had turned a little sour. Donald Trump did not appreciate that the head of government of the Hebrew state very quickly congratulated his opponent, Joe Biden, during his defeat in 2020, considering that it was a betrayal.
This time, Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to applaud the “greatest comeback in history”even before the full results of the November 5, 2024 election were known, while its brand new defense minister, Israel Katz, appointed the evening before, was enthusiastic about the prospect that his “historic victory” constitutes an opportunity for “defeat the “axis of evil” led by Iran”.
In the Middle East, one of the main issues on which the future Trump administration will have to position itself is the war in Gaza, which has left more than 43,000 dead. According to Israeli media, Donald Trump asked Benjamin Netanyahu, during his trip to the United States in July, to end hostilities “before he gets back to business”in January 2025. The formulation does not constitute a program, but rather outlines, implicitly, a form of blank check given to the Israeli Prime Minister, at least for the next two months.
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In public, the Republican candidate called on the Jewish state to “end the problem” in the Palestinian enclave ravaged by the Israeli army, while accusing Joe Biden and the Democratic administration of trying to ” retain “ Benjamin Netanyahu. A way of suggesting that the Prime Minister would have more freedom with him in the White House, even if he at the same time called on Israel to “stop killing people” in Gaza, for reasons of international reputation. When asked during the first presidential debate whether he would support the creation of a Palestinian state, Donald Trump responded: “I’ll have to see. »
“Great relief” for the Gulf States
The road map for a two-state solution, which Donald Trump presented in 2020, was rejected by the Palestinians, because it granted them a puppet state, divided by Jewish settlements, most of which would have been legalized. During his first term, after a brief opening towards the Palestinians – following his meeting with President Mahmoud Abbas in 2017 – the Republican billionaire’s policies were outrageously favorable to Israel.
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