Abraham's Foreign Policy

With the creation of Israel in 1948 the United States has always sided with Israel. After the creation of Israel, President Truman was the first out of all the world leaders to recognize the country. The United States had backed and has tried to support Israel throughout all of their issues with the Middle East since their creation. It was not until President Obama came into the presidency. That some problems with Israel began to arise and tensions began to form with how Israel was handling things. However, Israel has still obtained aid from the United States Since 1956. Since Truman’s era, Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush have all followed in the footsteps of Truman. They …show more content…
Till then America was mediating the situation to ensure peace in the Middle East. This can seen in Reuter’s “Timeline: U.S.- Israel Relations since 1948”, and Dr. Shabaneh’s “Obama’s Foreign policy towards Israel” , Bitty Glad “Carter’s Greatest Legacy”, Yaqub’s “The United States and the Middle East”, On the Issue’s “George Bush Sr. on Foreign Policy”, The Washington institute’s “ The Clinton administration’s approach to the Middle East’, and On the Issue’s “George W. Bush on Foreign Policy”. During the President Jimmy Carter’s term his mission was to restore peace in the Middle East. He started by moving to bring peace between Israel and Egypt through the Camp David Accords. Though he did …show more content…
Bush’s presidency, he sought for his policy towards Israel to protect them no matter what. His first move was to work with Israel and to persuade them towards his ideas in fear of Israel causing another war. During the first Gulf war, Gorge H.W. Bush worked to persuade the government of Israel to stay of the war. He knew that if the country of Israel got involved they would start and war with Iraq. If this even occurred George H.W. Bush feared that his administration would have no choice, but to cut ties with Israel and to work on fixing the tension that Israel started once again. Before the Gulf War, while Present Ronald Reagan was in office. Israel had sent bombing raids into the country of Beirut, while they were at war with the nation of Lebanon. During this instant President Ronald Reagan was forced to discuss with Israel to ceasefire (Reuter, 2010). President George H.W. Bush, or George Bush Senior, had to deal with another policy agenda in fear of losing Israel. He had to stop the spread of Zionism to prevent Israel from being taken over this movement. If this movement was not stopped it would enable Israel to be won over by Soviet Russian and the spread of radicalism would continue. In stopping the spread of Zionism it allowed for the United States to strengthen ties with Israel and continue to help give aid to the country. Even though, they have been constantly at war with other Middle East countries over land and waterways. This did not stop