US President Donald Trump, whose administration has declared that it no longer considers Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank outside international law, has adopted a policy of consistent support for Israel since he took office.

In this report, we review President Bush's positions on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict:

February 2017

  • A month after his inauguration, Trump expressed his readiness to act as a mediator in a peace solution between Israelis and Palestinians.
  • But he stressed that Washington was no longer clinging to a "two-state solution", in a position to break with a decades-old US diplomatic policy.

March 2017

  • Jason Greenblatt, Donald Trump's special representative in Jerusalem, met with representatives of Israeli settlers.

May 2017

  • Trump visited Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories and stood before the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, a first for a US president.

December 2017

  • Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital, angering the Palestinians.

May 2018

  • The transfer of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem coincided with a bloodbath in the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli army killed about 60 Palestinians during a demonstration on the border between Gaza and Israel.
  • Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared that "the United States is no longer a mediator in the Middle East."

August 2018

  • The United States announced that it would stop funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) a week after the write-off of more than $ 200 million in aid to the Palestinians.

September 2018

  • The United States announced the closure of the office of the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Washington, which served as the Palestinian Authority's embassy in the United States.

March 2019

  • The Americans closed the US consulate office in Jerusalem, which served as a diplomatic mission to the Palestinians, and merged with the US embassy in Jerusalem.

March 2019

  • Trump expressed support for recognizing Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights, much of it occupied in 1967 from Syria, which the international community did not recognize as annexing Israel in 1981.
  • Damascus, for its part, condemned the "flagrant violation" of international resolutions.
  • The US Secretary of State has hinted that the new Middle East peace plan will include a break from traditional consensus on key issues such as Jerusalem, settlements and Palestinian refugees.

May 2019

  • Jared Kushner, son-in-law and adviser to the US president, said the new plan would avoid mentioning a "two-state solution."

June 2019

  • The US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, asserted that Israel has the right to annex "parts" of the occupied West Bank.
  • In Bahrain, Kushner revealed the economic aspect of the US peace plan.

November 2019

  • US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said his country no longer considers Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank "inconsistent with international law."