US policy on Israeli settlements changes direction

As stated by the US Secretary of State, regarding the legitimacy of Israeli settlements on Palestinian territory, marks a significant deviation of American foreign policy as it establishes and legitimizes a position in clear violation of international law. Despite the fact that the United States has taken care to declare that this new position does not constitute a precedent, in reality Washington creates the variation of a situation, which despite the Israeli violation, had been regulated in an official manner through international law and that the same department American state, through an official legal opinion, had considered valid since 1978. On that legal opinion the US country had based its foreign policy on the matter of the settlements of Tel Aviv in the territories that had been conquered by the 1967 conflict. political point of view is yet another ambiguous behavior of Trump, who fails to equip himself with the institutional character necessary to run a country and which denotes its absolute unreliability on the international level, as already demonstrated with the abandonment of the Kurdish allies. The intention of the US president is, without doubt, to favor Benjamin Netanyahu, a politician with whom Trump has many affinities, but who is in serious crisis after the last two elections, which have blocked the Israeli country. It is not known whether Trump's move can actually help the former prime minister of Tel Aviv, while the criticism of the international community is certainly certain, with possible political and commercial repercussions, including on Israel, and the attitude of profound hostility of the Palestinian. On the other hand, to affirm that the settlement of the colonies does not represent an opposition to international law and, at the same time, to say that the USA does not intend to take a position on the status of the occupied territories, which is left to the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, represents a contradiction in terms, which denounces all the approximation and dilettantism of the American administration. It must be remembered that the Palestinian question, although associated with other international emergencies, remains central in the world diplomatic scenario and fundamental for regional balances; but this declaration helps to push back the two-state solution, which is probably feared by Washington. Perhaps the USA of Trump fear that an autonomous Palestinian state may represent a greater danger to Israel and American politics and thus remove this solution, supporting a state that breaks international law. This solution may be functional to the mandate of the current American president, that is, in the short term, but in the long run leaves a state of affairs that does not provide solutions and, immediately, pushes the Palestinians towards acts of violence and possible dangerous alliances for the regional balances. The address given to the question risks making things worse for the two sides, while American credibility is now definitively compromised and with the partiality expressed in the declaration in favor of the Israelis, the US places itself outside the peace process, because no longer impartial. One of the reasons for this change could be the electoral needs of Trump, who after the recent electoral defeats would try to recover the support of the influential US Jewish community, which, according to the polls, seems to favor the Democratic party. In any case, whatever the reason, the move to give legitimacy to the Israeli colonies sacrifices years of international prestige for American politics and confirms the doubts for an administration that is without a secure and certain address thanks to the absence of a project with a broad view on international dynamics and that moves sclerotic and functional only to the needs of the moment. With these characteristics the role of the first world power can be sustained only by military and economic capacity, but only with these characteristics does the USA adapt to China and lose credibility and prestige, essential qualities for being the most important global subject.