A comparison of Biden and Trump on Mideast policy. The biggest disparity between the two candidates may be their attitude toward Palestinians.
A man watches watch religious far right protesters march through Muslims quarters inside the Old City for the Jerusalem day flag march in occupied east Jerusalem, Israel, Wednesday, June 5, 2024.
But when push comes to shove, Biden has sided with Israel, declining to significantly hold back military aid and vetoing United Nations measures opposed by Israel, including a recent one to formally recognize a Palestinian state. Trump’s one-sided approach won him praise from some pro-Israel advocates, but critics say he also sacrificed valuable U.S. leverage in negotiating broader peace in the region.Biden voiced U.S. support for Israel and its right to self-defense after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that left nearly 1,200 Israelis and others dead.
By contrast, Trump hasn’t expressed concern for Palestinian casualties. He has urged Israel to “get the job done” to destroy Hamas. “You have to finish up your war,” Trump told the right-wing Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom in late March. “You gotta get it done.” Trump has been dismissive of the aspiration of a Palestinian state, although on occasion he has not discounted it completely. He shut down the de-facto Palestinian embassy in Washington and generally refused to meet with Palestinian leaders as president.
Kushner added that Gaza’s “waterfront property” could be “very valuable” and said that allowing Palestinians to have a state was a “super bad idea.” It is not clear what if any role he would have in a possible future Trump administration or whether his views reflect those of his father-in-law.The Biden administration has revived long-standing U.S. policy that the Jewish settlements Israel erects in the West Bank are an impediment to peace.
Democratic and Republic administrations had until then considered settlements at the minimum “unhelpful” to a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and in some cases illegal.On this issue, the Biden administration reversed Trump’s policy, returning to the traditional — if vague — U.S. description settlements as problematic and unhelpful, while declining to explicitly call them illegal.
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