🔻 Concern in captivity about the future of relations with the United States after the midterm elections.
🖋 Lucy Williamson, Bethlehem Jerusalem.
The results of the mid-term elections in the US raised a wave of concern in Israel regarding the future of relations between the two countries. While Democrats have gained control of both houses of Congress, some politicians and captive analysts say Washington's traditional support for captivity may face further challenges.
Benjamin Netanyahu's critics believe that the growing criticism of Israel's POW policy in Gaza, the West Bank and the Iran war is a sign of a gradual change in the political atmosphere in Washington. According to them, this development could affect the amount of American support for Israeli captivity in the coming years.
At the same time, Donald Trump's statements about the possibility of an early end to the annual military aid of the United States to Israeli prisoners in the amount of one billion dollars, had a wide impact in this country as well. Some observers warned that with Democrats controlling Congress, approving military aid and security cooperation between the two traditional allies could be more complicated.
These concerns are raised in the context of the fact that the captive himself is facing a tense political atmosphere after the last elections and the discussion of how to maintain and strengthen relations with Washington has become one of the main issues in the political circles of this country.