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The U.S President Trump is looking to present a Fair plan to resolve the conflict between Israel and Palestine. He is seeking to join a number of statesmen in bringing peace to the Middle East. The Arab-Israel War was initiated, since the establishment of Israel on May 14, 1948. Various former U.S Presidents have experienced the critical relationship with the Gulf region. They balanced their responsibilities to enhance secure democracy with competing for national interests.

Harry Truman was in the Oval Office at the time of Israel’s inception and lobbied for a UN partition plan giving 57% of the territory to Israel and 43% to Palestine. It lost support from key member states as fighting broke out and President Truman moved to recognize the new nation 11 minutes after its birth in the name of pragmatism. After a test period under Dwight D Eisenhower in the 1950s, where a CIA-backed coup in Iran, intervention in Lebanon and the Suez Crisis made for strained relations with Middle Eastern nations, John F Kennedy sought to improve matters with friendly overtures and aid to Israel, a key strategic outpost during the Cold War.

In the Lyndon Johnson era, the president had plenty on his plate with civil unrest at home and the Vietnam War raging overseas, but the US was forced to turn its attention to Israel with the 6-Day War breaking out in 1967. Israel conquered the West Bank and Gaza from Jordan and Egypt as well as Syria’s Golan Heights, prompting the Soviet Union to make a diplomatic intervention. Former U.S President Johnson put the US Navy’s Mediterranean Sixth Fleet on alert and drew Israel into a ceasefire. The violence returned when Egypt, Syria, and Jordan retaliated for their loss of land by attacking Israel on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur in 1973.