Timeline: Trump’s policies toward the Palestinians
Senior U.S. officials, including Jared Kushner, Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, would in the following years go on to make comments that offended Palestinians, such as questioning their ability to govern themselves and expressing support for Israeli settlements, which are deemed illegal under international law, and their annexation.Trump announced that the United States would move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, in a break with long-standing U.S. policy.
“This administration is dismantling decades of U.S. vision and engagement in Palestinian territories,” Husam Zomlot, then a Palestinian envoy in Washington, said in a statement. “After Jerusalem and UNRWA, this is another confirmation of abandoning the two-state solution and fully embracing [Israeli prime minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s anti-peace agenda.”U.S.
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