On December 6, 2017, Donald Trump began his first blow to the implementation of international law in the Middle East. He indeed recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a decision that all his predecessors had refused to endorse because of the disputed character of the Holy City, of which only the western part has been integrated into Israel since 1949, the eastern part having not been occupied in 1967.
It is pending final settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that the United States, in unison with other members of the UN, had previously maintained their embassy in Israel in Israel in Israel until then . Bill Clinton had even proposed in 2000, within the framework of the “solution to two states”, whether Jerusalem be a capital shared between Israel and the future Palestinian State, with Israeli sovereignty on Jewish districts and Palestinian sovereignty on the Arab districts (the 300,000 Palestinians remain in the majority at 60 % in the occupied territory of East Jerusalem).
Trump sweeps such considerations to stick to the one and only freedom of worship, according to him perfectly guaranteed by Israel in Jerusalem. Thus denying the national attachment of the Palestinian people to the holy city, as well as the daily violence of the occupation in East Jerusalem, Trump continues his business to demolish international legality by disengaging the United States from the agreement on the Iranian nuclear, then recognizing Israeli sovereignty on the Syrian territory of the Golan, occupied since 1967. The republican president thus intends to satisfy the evangelical right which unconditionally supports him in the name of “Christian Zionism”.
Besides his daughter and his son -in -law, he was represented in Jerusalem, on May 14, 2018, during the official inauguration of the new American embassy, by two pastors that their anti -Semitic slippages did not disqualified in the eyes of Benyamin Netanyahu , Prime Minister since 2009. It is that the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is paradoxically much more important for the “Christian Zionists” of the hard right in the United States than for the American Jews, who constantly continue to vote Democrat at an overwhelming majority.
The bet of Netanyahu on the Christian fundamentalists goes far beyond the United States, with, from the evening of May 14, 2018 in Jerusalem, a coordination meeting between Israeli Prime Minister and evangelical officials from America Latin, where their “Zionist” messianism is carried by militant proselytism. It is in this context that the White House can congratulate itself to see its gesture in Jerusalem soon followed by Guatemala, Honduras and Paraguay. But the effective displacement of the Paraguay Embassy in Jerusalem is so linked to the personality of President Horacio Cartès that it only lasts a few months. The new Head of State Paraguayen, Mario Abdo Benitez, yet a member of the same party as Cartès, decides, in September 2018, to repatriate his embassy to Tel Aviv in order to “contribute” to “extended, fair and lasting peace in the means -Orient “. Netanyahu, furious with this reverse, must be satisfied with the commitment, this time followed by effect, of the president of Guatemala, Jimmy Morales, very linked to the evangelical right.
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