The Obama Legacy in the Middle East and the Trump Challenge

Robert O. Freedman

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, 2017, vol. 73, issue 2, 241-250

Abstract: During the second term of President Barack Obama, US-Israeli relations sharply deteriorated. After a positive visit by President Obama to Israel in March 2013, major disagreements erupted over the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, over the nuclear deal with Iran and, especially, over the construction of Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Making matters worse, personal recriminations crept into the Israeli-American dialogue on the disputes. While the two countries signed a major military assistance agreement in September 2016, Israeli settlement expansion after the election of Donald Trump as the US President in November 2016 led to a further deterioration of relations between the Obama Administration and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, which was demonstrated by the Obama Administration’s failure to veto a UN Security Council Resolution condemning Israeli settlements.

Keywords: Obama Administration; John Kerry; Binyamin Netanyahu; Jewish settlements; Moshe Ya’alon; Iranian nuclear agreement; Avigdor Lieberman; US-Israeli security relations; UN Security Council Resolution 2334 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/0974928417699917

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