Israel To Push Ahead With Settlement Building After Donald Trump Victory

According to the PMO, regional issues were also discussed during the phone conversation, though no details were disclosed.

The politicians had reason for optimism.

Friedman, who acts as the co-chair of Trump’s Israel Advisory Committee and could be in line to become the USA ambassador to Israel, said the dip in relations between President Barack Obama and Netanyahu would be no more when Trump entered office in January.

“I hope for the U.S. and the world that he actualizes the promises of his acceptance speech, not the campaign”, she wrote.

Rather than direct and overbearing interference, like past presidents, Greenblatt said Trump “is not going to impose any solution on Israel”.

Israel-U.S.relations were often tense between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

Bennett is not the only voice calling for the disregard of the right of Palestinians to establish an independent state. Recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital “was a campaign promise, and there is every intention to keep it”, Friedman said Wednesday.

The approach is something of a middle path.

More than 200 people protested outside parliament in Rabat against Israel’s flag being hoisted at the COP22 conference that opened on Monday.

Sara Netanyahu and Melania Trump could find that they have much in common, as the wives of prominent and often divisive leaders who are themselves figures of controversy.

Bennett’s statement came in the aftermath of MK Bezalel Smotrich’s (Bayit Yehudi) statement earlier on Wednesday in which he said the idea of an independent Palestinian state was now “shelved immediately”.

Israeli right-wingers have hailed Trump’s win as a chance to consolidate control over the occupied West Bank and annexed East Jerusalem. But in September, his office was forced to make an embarrassing correction to a public transcript that mistakenly identified Jerusalem as part of Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he will not allow Iran to turn neighbouring Syria into a base of military operations and vowed to limit the Islamic Republic’s influence in the war-ravaged country. Netanyahu and Trump are friendly and ties are expected to improve.

But Eran said the prime minister would be unlikely to seek carte blanche from Trump in the West Bank, even if it were on the table. Settlement building has been criticised as an obstacle to the peace process with the Palestinians by organisations including the United Nations and EU.

For Palestinians, it was not expected that the victor of the US election, whoever it was, would shift American policy toward the Palestinian cause.