AN ANALYTICAL VIEW TO THE JERUSALEM DECISION OF TRUMP ADMINISTRATION

Year 2018, Volume: 11 Issue: 1, 97 - 137, 25.06.2018

Mehmet Sait Dilek

Abstract

The US Congress has
preferred to stay away from the ground of international law by accepting the
‘Jerusalem Embassy Act’ in 1995 based on ‘Basic
Law of 1980’. By the ‘Presidential Waiver’ mentioned in the law, they have
started to suspend the Jerusalem Embassy Act with six-month periods since June
1999. But Trump has accepted the Jerusalem Embassy Act in December 2017 that
will start the process of moving the American embassy to Jerusalem.

This work has put the
grounds of Trump administration’s Jerusalem decision to examination in the
light of scientific principles. That is the statements and acts of the foreign
policy actors and other shareholders who are effective in the decision making
process has been evaluated by content analysis. In addition to this, because
the Palestine/Jerusalem Question is a chronic problem, it has been examined
with the current and periodical information. As a result of these methods, the
multifactoral ground that takes Trump to this reductionist decision has been
detected with concrete examples.  

Keywords

Jerusalem, USA, Israel, UN, Lobbying

TRUMP YÖNETİMİNİN KUDÜS KARARINA ANALİTİK BAKIŞ

Abstract

ABD Kongresi, 1995
yılında ‘1980 Tarihli İsrail Temel Yasasını’ esas alan ‘Kudüs Büyükelçilik
Yasasını’ kabul ederek uluslararası hukuk zemininden uzaklaşmayı tercih
etmiştir. Yasa metninde yer alan ‘Başkanlık Ayrıcalığı’ yetkisi nedeniyle 1999
Haziran ayından itibaren ABD Başkanları, Kudüs Büyükelçilik Yasası’nın altı
aylık periyodlarla askıya alınmasını başlatmışlardır. Ancak ABD Başkanı Donald
Trump, Tel Aviv’deki ABD Büyükelçiliği’nin Kudüs’e taşınması sürecini
başlatacak olan Kudüs Büyükelçilik Yasası’nı 2017 Aralık ayı itibariyle
onaylamıştır.

Bu çalışmada Trump
yönetiminin Kudüs kararının temelleri bilimsel ilkeler ışığında incelenmeye
tabi tutulmuştur. ABD karar alma mekanizmasında etkili olan dış politika
aktörlerinin ve diğer paydaşların Kudüs üzerine söylemleri ve eylemleri içerik
analizi üzerinden değerlendirilmiştir. Buna ilaveten, Filistin/Kudüs sorunu
kronik bir sorun olduğundan hem güncel hem de dönemsel bilgiler üzerinden de
irdelenmiştir. Bu metotlar neticesinde ABD Başkanı Trump’ı bu indirgemeci
karara götüren çok faktörlü zemin somut örnekler üzerinden tespit edilmiştir.

Keywords

Kudüs, ABD, İsrail, BM, Lobicilik

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