Opposition in the Right and the US to the Century Plan and Messages Against Trump Causes Confusion among Israeli Supporters in the US • It is worth thinking about the implications this would have for Washington-Jerusalem relations

Supporters of the American right know how to deal with the conduct of the Israeli left. The radicalization of the American left and activist judges in the United States gives them the tools to understand things such as these and other High Court rulings. But they do not know how to explain the right here. 

The trunks will not increase the pressure, but will lower the desire of Israeli supporters to enter the debate. Trump at AIPAC conference // Photo: AFP

In recent weeks, expressions of confusion have been growing among Israeli supporters in the American right. Pro-Israel conservative Jews, as well as evangelical Christians, do not understand the behavior of politicians such as right-wing party leaders and Yesha council leaders when it comes to the Trump and sovereignty programs.

The question "Wait, you don't want sovereignty in Judea and Samaria?" Repeats over the sea in different versions time after time. So did she wonder at the attacks against President Donald Trump among the growing Yesha Council leaders. "Do you really think Trump is not pro-Israeli?" 

They are unable and unwilling to delve into the subtleties of the Trump program, but they are opposed to a Palestinian state and know that thanks to the US president, Israel is for the first time exercising its sovereign rights in vast areas of Judea and Samaria.

In 2016, Republican delegates at the party conference wiped out the section of the party platform that supported a two-state solution, but such a state is not at issue today. The Israeli sovereignty in the settlement and the Jordan Valley, with the support of the government, indeed. And right now, on the eve of applying the law and in a highly charged political atmosphere in America, the Israeli right is attacking Trump. The confusion in America, then, is self-evident. 

There is a reasonable basis for this embarrassment of Israeli supporters to have significant implications for the horizon of Jerusalem-Washington relations. To understand how things can go, we need to see Israel's supporters in the wider American context.

A vacuum for anti-Israeli positions

Until the 2000s, support from the United States was almost a consensus position on American politics. Israelis who came to Washington were accepted as members of the offices of both Democratic and Republican congressmen. Today the situation is different. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, Republican support in Israel has grown to almost unimaginable rates. Reverse process has taken place. Since September 11, hostile elements of Israel - from the extreme left and from Islamic circles - have become stronger and have become the party's most significant activists. , Unable to compete with the new donors, who in many cases have made their contributions in adopting anti-Israeli positions by the candidates. 

In many ways, Barack Obama owes his success to these new mechanisms and activists. He himself contributed greatly to the strengthening of the new players on the one hand and to the decay of the traditional party mechanisms which were the main support base of the moderate politicians in the party on the other. 

Last March, the new mechanisms and activists on the left caused the downfall of the last Democratic congressman who opposed abortion. Dan Lipinski of the state of Illinois ran in the run-up to a Palestinian candidate and a progressive candidate. Both attacked him for his pro-Israeli positions, and the winner had an election budget three times greater than his own. Democratic Jews, for their part, refused to support Lipinsky because he opposes abortion and same-sex marriage.

The disappearance and neutralization of moderate Democrats from power positions in the party means that the next Democratic president will not have to deal with domestic opposition to anti-Israeli policies. On the contrary, he will be attacked by his voters and donors if he takes a friendly line toward Israel.

At this stage, Israel has no ability to influence the Democratic Party. Therefore, the main arena that needs us today is the Republican. Israel's greatest challenge is to maintain and even enhance their support, which brings us back to the Yesha-Right Council's conduct regarding the Trump program and the question of sovereignty.

Americans have other troubles

Trump is a revolutionary figure in American politics in many ways. His refusal to take the Washington establishment's conventions for granted made him a jaded and hated figure among elite members of both parties. 

One of the conventions he already rejected during his election campaign was that he stated that Israeli settlers from Judea and Samaria should not meet. Trump and his team were the first to not only agree to meet with colonial representatives, they even asked to do so. One councilor at the beginning of Trump's tenure excitedly told how when he entered a meeting with Presidential Envoy Jason Greenblatt, Tzipi Livni walked out of the room. "Her stunned look, seeing her come in, was one of the most beautiful things I saw in my day," he said at the time.

Today, when there are derogatory calls from Trump from Yesha Council leaders, and especially from Chairman David Alhaini, as if there is no difference between the current president and his predecessors, a message to Republican politicians that Trump should repeal the century plan, which makes no sense to talk to colonists and their representatives .

Opponents of the Trump plan say that in light of the fact that evangelicals oppose a Palestinian state, it is now time to harness them to torpedo the clauses that speak of such a state. But that is not the case.

The United States is now a burst of flaming explosives. There is no attention among Republicans for anger by Israeli right-wingers over a hypothetical plan that the Palestinians have already rejected, which Israel has already agreed to see as a basis for negotiations and that is not at all under way. About Trump. They lower the desire of Israeli supporters in general to enter into an argument they do not understand. 

The outright hostility of right-wing leaders toward the most pro-Israeli government in US history not only lowers the desire of Israeli supporters to press the White House. It can also leave a bitter taste in their mouths over time. There are all kinds of ways to be a good Christian - support for Israel is only If Israelis do not know their best friend in the White House and do not want to apply their sovereignty - precisely while Trump is fighting for his political life - they will do what they have in mind, but do not expect people to fight for them in the future.