Looking Beyond Trump: How to Reset U.S. Policy
Kurtzer explores the objectives of the administration of US President Donald Trump in relation to Israel and the Palestinians. One of the objectives has been the marginalization of the Palestinians as an actor with a critical stake in the conflict. The administration has almost everything possible t...
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| Published in: | Palestine-Israel journal of politics, economics, and culture economics, and culture, 2020-01, Vol.25 (1/2), p.7-13 |
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| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | Kurtzer explores the objectives of the administration of US President Donald Trump in relation to Israel and the Palestinians. One of the objectives has been the marginalization of the Palestinians as an actor with a critical stake in the conflict. The administration has almost everything possible to deny Palestinians agency and standing. The administration shuttered the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office in Washington and the American Consulate General in Jerusalem, thereby dosing the two most important formal channels of communication with Palestinian officials. Administration officials also denigrated Palestinians through an almost daily bombardment of criticisms such as the Twitter barrage by Jason Greenblatt, the former Trump envoy. But, perhaps the most far-reaching objective of the administration has been to change the situation on the ground and to remake the way American officials are supposed to talk about the conflict. Against the backdrop of this strategy and these objectives, the release of the Trump "vision" was clearly something of an afterthought. The timing of release was dictated not by a substantive or strategic calculation but rather by the administration's hope that it would boost the political fortunes and election chances of Benjamin Netanyahu. |
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| ISSN: | 0793-1395 |