Trump and Israel: Exploiting a Partisan Divide for Political Gains

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Israel Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI:10.2979/israelstudies.27.1.07

Amnon Cavari

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Abstract

ABSTRACT:During his 2016 election campaign, Donald Trump vowed to change U.S. priorities and strengthen his administration's relationship with Israel and its government. As president, Mr. Trump carried through his campaign promises: He recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem; he recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights; he withdrew the U.S. from the Iran Nuclear Deal; he cut funding for the Palestinians; took unilateral supportive actions at the U.N. and promoted peace negotiations between Israel and Arab countries in the region. The article reviews these measures as strategic partisan tools used by Donald Trump to fulfill commitments to his base and to appropriate issues which had long been avoided as partisan. In appropriating them for his own political gains, the former president tapped into and increased the ongoing partisan divide over Israel which may well become an irreversible trend.

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特朗普与以色列：利用党派分歧获取政治利益

摘要:唐纳德·特朗普在2016年竞选期间誓言要改变美国的优先事项，加强与以色列及其政府的关系。作为总统，特朗普兑现了他的竞选承诺:他承认耶路撒冷是以色列的首都，并将美国大使馆迁至耶路撒冷;他承认以色列对戈兰高地的主权;他让美国退出了伊朗核协议;他削减了对巴勒斯坦人的资助;在联合国采取了单方面的支持行动，并推动了以色列和该地区阿拉伯国家之间的和平谈判。本文回顾了这些措施作为唐纳德·特朗普用来履行对其基础的承诺和适当问题的战略党派工具，这些问题长期以来一直被党派所回避。为了自己的政治利益，这位前总统利用并加剧了目前在以色列问题上的党派分歧，这很可能成为一种不可逆转的趋势。

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期刊介绍： Israel Studies presents multidisciplinary scholarship on Israeli history, politics, society, and culture. Each issue includes essays and reports on matters of broad interest reflecting diverse points of view. Temporal boundaries extend to the pre-state period, although emphasis is on the State of Israel. Due recognition is also given to events and phenomena in diaspora communities as they affect the Israeli state. It is sponsored by the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University, in affiliation with the Association for Israel Studies.