Harris and Trump are two sides of the same coin

Whoever wins the US president in light of the elections that will start Tuesday morning, Washington time, the US strategic policy towards the Middle East will not change. On the contrary, US support for Israel will remain the same, whether the next president is Donald Trump or Kamala Harris, as they are two sides of the same coin.

The history of the United States confirms its support for Israel, its backing and development of its military capabilities, and its strengthening of its occupation of Palestine. It is full of unforgettable evidence and events. The US administration is keen to strengthen strategic partnership relations with the Israeli entity, starting from 1948 when the occupying entity was established on the land of Palestine. The United States was one of the first countries to recognize Israel, and relations between the two countries have been the best over the years. The United States supported Israel in the tripartite aggression in 1956, the June 1967 war, and the October 1973 war with money and weapons during its wars against the Arab countries, all the way to supporting Israel with all its strength during the current ongoing aggression on the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Iran, and the attacks launched by Israel on Iraq and Syria, and close cooperation in targeting Yemen, where the United States supports most of Israel’s steps, due to the strength of the Jewish lobby in the US government, as it shares Israel’s refusal to recognize the State of Palestine, and it is with Israel in its opposition to the Iranian nuclear project.

US foreign aid to Israel is considered one of the most important pillars of relations between the two countries. Since 1985, Israel has received about three billion dollars annually from the United States, which has put Israel on the list of countries that have received the most aid from America since World War II, with an amount of about 121 billion US dollars. The latest aid was revealed by the American newspaper (Washington Post) that the United States has concluded more than 100 arms sales deals to Israel since the start of the Gaza war on October 7, 2023, while it has only announced two deals.

The American role, which is completely biased towards Israel, is evident in its rejection of international resolutions, the latest of which is the non-binding resolution passed by the UN General Assembly, which called for a ceasefire for humanitarian reasons, to allow aid to reach Gaza. In the most influential UN Security Council, Washington used its veto power against a resolution similar to this one, knowing that the history of the Americans is full of many practices through which the United States played the role of the faithful guardian and trustee of Israel, to provide it with a protective fence through which the latter continued its aggression against the Palestinian people, and went beyond that to play the role of arrogance throughout the Middle East, and it is considered responsible for destabilizing the region through its constant tendency towards war.

Israel has thwarted all attempts to reach a prisoner exchange deal, a ceasefire and an end to the aggression on the Gaza Strip. Despite the United States’ awareness of this fact, it has tried to turn the facts upside down in an attempt to hold Hamas and the Palestinian resistance responsible, which explains its position that is completely biased in favor of Israel and its unwillingness to end the war.

All the American statements before the elections, which are headed by the headlines of keenness to stop the war on the Gaza Strip, as the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris says, who called for stopping the killing of Palestinian civilians, and Donald Trump, the Republican Party candidate, believes that he is able to end the wars in the Middle East within four years, are statements for electoral consumption and propaganda campaigns. The United States is an official partner of Israel in the war of extermination against our people, and their strategic partnership proves this, and both bear responsibility for the tension and escalation in our region.

Trump and Harris are two sides of the same coin: a diplomatic policy that is biased toward Israel par excellence.