The effects of the Trump presidency on US/Palestinian relations from a Palestinian perspective
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2023-08-31
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The ‘Deal of the Century’ drafted by the Donald Trump presidency in 2018 startled many societies, governments and leaders internationally as it presented a peace plan for the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. This set off a wave of protests across Palestine and Israel and upset the Arab world and Western allies alike. At the same time, many other pro-Israeli gestures were implemented from the United States simultaneously, such as the withdrawal of their financial support to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). This deal inevitably changed local dynamics, international involvement, and American diplomacy in the conflict. This research aims to elaborate on the Deal of the Century and expose the policies that generated the greatest change in the relationship between Palestinian civil society and other grassroots organizations and American governmental entities such as USAID. It provides insights in the evolving local Palestinian landscape in terms of donor aid as these Palestinian organizations attempted donor shifts to more sustainable – in this case- European partners. It discovers that symbolic actions in the Deal of the Century were one of the main reasons for this shift. Therefore, this paper argues that the Donald Trump Presidency has left a long-lasting footprint on US-Palestinian relations on both the diplomatic level as on local grounds
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen