The Israeli government is having to
plan how to deal with a Trump presidency and the loss of $6bn a year in
US military equipment, arms, loans, grants and gifts from an AIPAC-led
Congress.
Just as Binyamin Netanyahu is wondering
how to replace the EU, his primary trading market, in the event that
Europe decides to implement sanctions against his continued illegal
occupation of Palestinian land, he now faces the possibility of having
to deal with a Republican President who will certainly not be a ‘patsy’
in a lobby-controlled White House.
The current global attitude to Israel’s
continued illegal settlement policy has now hardened into one of angry
impatience at Netanyahu’s obstructive tactics in regard to the
establishment of an independent state of Palestine to accommodate a
dispossessed, indigenous people of over 5 million.
Also, as a consequence of Israel’s six
year blockade of essential medical, food and building supplies into Gaza
in close co-operation with the Egyptian dictator, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi,
1.8 million civilians are still living in a bombed-out enclave reduced
to rubble, and with only enough food to keep the entire population at
just above subsistence level: atrocities perpetrated by the Israeli
government.
However, there now appears to be the
possibility of a consensus for a UN resolution to force Israel to comply
with international law and for the imposition of a deadline for
compliance, failing which, US and EU bilateral trade with the Israeli
state could be drastically restricted.
That there needs to be a paradigm shift
in the international attitude towards Israeli policy in the Occupied
Territories, is an essential factor in Middle East politics and future
peace, and with a Trump Presidency, that will almost certainly become a
priority for the United States and for the European Union.
Of course, in the unlikely event of a
Clinton presidency, the reverse would be true and we would see the
frightening prospect of team ‘Binyamin and Hillary’ running the White
House. Heaven forbid!
(C) EUnewsdesk London. 2016
The original source of this article is Global Research
Copyright © Anthony Bellchambers, Global Research, 2016
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