Trump is celebrating Netanyahu's win as if it were his own — and it kind of is | Analysis by StCollinson
Trump and his foreign policy team orchestrated one of the most undisguised US interventions in an election abroad of recent times, helping to win the Israeli Prime Minister a fifth term.Now he's claiming some of the spoils."Trump flags being waived at the Bibi @Netanyahu VICTORY celebration last night!" Trump tweeted before calling his friend to congratulate him on Wednesday.
Trump hands Netanyahu a victory before election 02:48Both men will be sure to draw lessons from the last few weeks of intense campaigning in Israel.Netanyahu succeeded partly with a sharp shift to the right in the waning days of the campaign and adopted divide-and-rule scare tactics that Trump had already perfected in his own election win in 2016. Afraid of losing out on right-wing votes, Netanyahu also courted a far-right party with extremist elements decried as racist.
Netanyahu channeling Trump amid corruption charges 02:06But Trump's willingness to shape US foreign policy for his own political ends -- evident all over the globe, not just in the Middle East -- comes with potential long-term complications for the US.There is the risk that, by aligning the US so closely with one side of the political aisle in Israel, Trump will diminish American leverage if Israel's recent shift to the right takes a moderate reversal.
Trump: We have to do what's right at border 02:26Politics in Israel, like in the US, is never static. Even if Netanyahu succeeds in framing a new coalition, there is a strong possibility that it will not all be smooth going in relations with the White House.Potential coalition partners are sure to seek to nail down the Prime Minister on his promise of annexing territory in the West Bank.
Trump peace plan imminent after Netanyahu win 07:25Netanyahu's survival will also have a wide impact on politics in Washington, where support for Israel has been almost universal and one of the few areas of genuine bipartisanship.But Trump's embrace of the Likud Prime Minister in his march to the far right and his attempt to brand any criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic could have significant consequences in the US and even for the Israel itself in the long term.Sen.
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