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
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He started by moving to bring peace between Israel and Egypt through the Camp David Accords. Though he did not succeed in bringing peace to the Middle East he did succeed in his policy to get Egypt and Israel to sign a treaty. If Carter was not so determined to get the treaty signed by the two countries then the treaty would not have happened. Stadt only came to Camp David to retrieve the Arab territory that Israel had taken. Stadt needed to make sure that the Arabs would get back the Sinai Peninsula and the rest of the territories. However, Stadt knew this would be difficult, because of the close relations between Israel and the United States. In the end Stadt received the Sinai Peninsula, but for the rest of the territory the Arabs would have to deal with Israel and Jordan to see who would gain control of the areas. This however, left Stadt in a fire storm with the Palestinians. For Carter the issues with the Israel and Palestine would be a whole another problem in itself. He realized that when it came to making peace the policy would first have to get both sides to recognize each other. This did not stop Begin to fully stop his settlement construction in Jerusalem. Even though Begin, promised to stop the construction while peace is determined during negotiations (Glad and Johnston 2013). After the peace treaty and Palestine not getting its territory back from Israel. It leads to tensions rising and the two going to war with each other. With the peace treaty over Israel also continued with construction of the settlements pushing more Palestinians out of their homes (Yaqub,
He started by moving to bring peace between Israel and Egypt through the Camp David Accords. Though he did not succeed in bringing peace to the Middle East he did succeed in his policy to get Egypt and Israel to sign a treaty. If Carter was not so determined to get the treaty signed by the two countries then the treaty would not have happened. Stadt only came to Camp David to retrieve the Arab territory that Israel had taken. Stadt needed to make sure that the Arabs would get back the Sinai Peninsula and the rest of the territories. However, Stadt knew this would be difficult, because of the close relations between Israel and the United States. In the end Stadt received the Sinai Peninsula, but for the rest of the territory the Arabs would have to deal with Israel and Jordan to see who would gain control of the areas. This however, left Stadt in a fire storm with the Palestinians. For Carter the issues with the Israel and Palestine would be a whole another problem in itself. He realized that when it came to making peace the policy would first have to get both sides to recognize each other. This did not stop Begin to fully stop his settlement construction in Jerusalem. Even though Begin, promised to stop the construction while peace is determined during negotiations (Glad and Johnston 2013). After the peace treaty and Palestine not getting its territory back from Israel. It leads to tensions rising and the two going to war with each other. With the peace treaty over Israel also continued with construction of the settlements pushing more Palestinians out of their homes (Yaqub,