The most anti-Palestinian administration in US history

Dince George W. Bush launched, in 2001, his “global war on terror “, the United States has abandoned any serious desire to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even Barack Obama, after some initial hesitation, granted without the slightest compensation, in 2016, military aid to Israel in the unprecedented amount of 38 billion dollars (36 billion euros) over ten years. As for Donald Trump, his first visit to the White House was accompanied by the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the moving of the United States embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, while the American consulate in East Jerusalem, until now focused on the Palestinian population.

Not only did Joe Biden not return to any of these accomplished facts, but he provided massive support, military as well as diplomatic and financial, to the war that Benjamin Netanyahu has persisted in waging against Gaza since October 2023. The appointments already announced by Donald Trump, which the Republican majority in Congress is not likely to call into question, nevertheless augur an administration even more hostile than the previous ones to the Palestinians and their rights.

A completely renewed team

Trump did not retain any of his 2017-2021 aides to manage the Middle East, either specifically or as part of a more general portfolio. Even his son-in-law Jared Kushner, whom he had charged with developing “the deal of the century » of 2020, is not renewed. This agreement, signed between Trump and Netanyahu alone at the White House, reduced the future Palestine to being nothing more than a rump state on a portion of the West Bank and without any territorial continuity. The American president did not fail to emphasize the opportunity that such a “deal” offered to his promoter friends, due to the complex network of bridges, tunnels and bypass roads that this carving up of Palestine made possible. 'consider. But Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, dared to refuse a plan negotiated without him and against him. As a result of this failure, Donald Trump has just appointed as special envoy to the Middle East, no longer his son-in-law, but his golf partner, Steven Witkoff, a real estate developer without the slightest diplomatic experience. There is no doubt that “the art of the deal”of which Mr. Trump claims to be an expert, this time with Mr. Witkoff in charge, will lead to an even more brutal diktat being imposed on the Palestinians than in 2020.

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