US Presidential Candidates: Policies for Strengthening US-Israel Relations

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Republican presidential candidates have been participated to speak to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) that been convened on Monday, March 21, 2016. Which discussed the relationship between the United States and Israel and the future policies and strategic plans that will be followed by each of the candidates when they win the presidential election to strengthen ties with Israel. Also, their speech will contain some of Israeli and Palestinians framings that obtained our attention in Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's speech.
Both candidates have their own political strategy that they believed it is very useful and powerful to protect and strengthen the relations between US, Israel and their nation. In fact, there are a very few points that might be similar in their political views. For example, both candidates have reaction from the Iranian government and their Nuclear weapons. So, we can determine their framing of the conflict as (US/Iranian conflict narrative frame). Clinton and Trump believed that Iran poses a major threat to Israel. Which …show more content…

The most important part of these similarities was the political process that confirmed to follow with the Iran's issue of nuclear weapons the military; and confirming to solve this issue without any intervention of a particular part and especially the United Nations. They mentioning to use Veto in any attempt by the UN to impose its will on the Jewish state. Therefore, Iran's' situation was at the top of their speech. As for the second issue, where both candidates called for the negotiation process to recognize Israel as an independent democracy. Finally, appealing to the Israeli government and the parties to stop the glorification terrorism as martyrs and stop support their families with

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