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Trump’s Path for Peace in Israel-Palestine?

Jakub Ferencik
9 min readNov 7, 2024

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In modern political history, the Democrats and Republicans have diverged on Israel-Palestine. That said, mainstream US establishment politicians on both side of the aisles have expressed unequivocal support for Israel.

Indeed, we saw this from Biden as well whose near-unequivocal support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war with Hamas, which has

  1. managed to decimate 60 percent of the Gaza Strip,
  2. displaced the entirety of the 2 million people living there, many of whom have been displaced more than once, and
  3. kill over 42,000 Palestinians.

This is not to talk about the human rights abuses and displacements have continued in the West Bank from Israeli settlers.

President-elect, Donald Trump, has emerged as the victor for the second time now — in what many are calling the greatest political comeback in modern US political history. He has been particularly hawkish, much to the applause of Netanyahu. But what can we expect from his administration in the years to come?

Is Israel on the brink of a permanent state of war? It might be.

Let me explain.

“You’ve got to get it over with, and you have to get back to normalcy. And I’m not sure that I’m loving the way they’re doing it, because you’ve got to have victory. You have to…

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Jakub Ferencik
Jakub Ferencik

Written by Jakub Ferencik

Journalist living in Prague | Author of “Up in the Air” and “Beyond Reason” on AMAZON | MA McGill Uni | 750+ articles with 1+ mil. views

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