US president-elect Donald Trump will move his administration even closer to Israel and would feel no pressure to pretend there is a difference between the interests of the two sides, analysts said, reports Al Jazeera.
Speaking to the AFP, Asher Fredman, director of the Israeli think tank the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy, said the incoming Trump administration looked “more pro-Israel than most Israelis”.
“There is really tremendous paradigm-shifting potential in a number of realms, such as advancing regional cooperation and putting maximum pressure on Iran,” Fredman said.
Elie Pieprz, director of international relations at the Israel Defense and Security Forum – an avowedly Zionist organisation, said Biden had a difficult relationship with Israel while Trump will likely seek to ease any friction.
Much like his domestic slogan, Pieprz said, Trump wants to “make the US-Israel relationship great again”.
Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former US State Department adviser, said Trump has an “opportunistic, transactional and ad hoc” approach to international affairs and is unlikely to be able to stop Israel’s war on Gaza.
“He cannot end the war in Gaza and won’t pressure Netanyahu to do so,” Miller told the media.
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