Continuity and Change in the Determinants of the American Foreign Policy Concerning The Palestinian Question

Abstract

The study aimed to aimed to know the continuity and change in the determinants of the foreign policy concerning the Palestinian question in the period of the Obama and Trump administrations, for the purpose of uncovering the features of continuity and change in the policy determinants and analyzing the emergent developments in the American foreign policy in order to know their declared motives and their connection with the interests and their effect on the Palestinian question. In order to achieve this, the study adopted the descriptive historical and analytical methodology.
The study concluded the following results: The United States has never been serious and honest in the initiatives which it offered to solve the Palestinian question. For it was indicated that the aim behind these initiatives was only managing the conflict and gaining time for the benefit of Israel in order to impose realities on the ground from which Israel benefits.
The study offered a number of recommendations the most important of which are: not betting on the American administration in effecting any positive changes for the benefit of the Palestinians  or in putting pressure on Israel , and emphasizing the strengthening  the Palestinian internal ranks and rearranging the  Palestinian house for protecting the Palestinian right  in confronting  the potential pressures  and activating  the political and media work for supporting the Palestinian question on the Arab, Islamic and international levels.