United States Foreign Policy in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict and Its Implication on the Two States Solution

Abstract

Prior American administrations were more balanced in their relations with Israel and the Arab world. During the Cold War Israel was an important strategic asset in the containment of Communist influence in the middle eastern region, Washington structured its arms sales to Israel, controlled Israeli military preeminence during the wars with its Arab neighbors, and sought to arbitrate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to balance US relations with moderate Arab regimes. Today, the opposite seems to be true. It is considering the above forlorn situation that this essay attempts to analytically x-ray the Palestinian – Israeli conflict and US foreign policy. The major objective of the study was among others to establish that the current US foreign policy of the Trump administration will only further escalate the conflict by exacerbating tensions; it establishes the onion model as a framework upon which the study was built theoretically. The study resulted from the increasing trend of violence and killings in the region and how the people living in the region have been further devastated all because US foreign policy summersault. It also makes useful insights and recommendations on how to broker peace in the region.