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Palestine – United States relations are relations between the State of Palestine and the United States. Official diplomatic relations do not exist in the sense of diplomatic exchanges and consular services since the United States does not recognise Palestine as a state. However, relations between the U.S. government and the PLO, as the U.S.-recognised representative of the Palestinian people, existed from the 1970s onward. The PLO is represented in Washington by a General Delegation. The U.S. government does not have any official representative office within Palestinian Authority areas, but has a Consulate General in Jerusalem, which handles relations with the Palestinian Authority, and an embassy in Tel Aviv. ==Basic factors in United States-Palestinian relations== There are several factors governing U.S. attitudes towards the Palestinian issue: * U.S. basic support for the State of Israel, both for its security as well as a Jewish state and a major non-treaty strategic ally. This support makes it more difficult for the Palestinian Authority to receive support for its positions in the face of Israeli policies of settlement expansion and refusal to cede more territory. * U.S. traditional support for oppressed peoples, which is used to explain the partial support given by Washington to the goal of a Palestinian state as the outcome of the peace-process. * U.S. traditional support for Christian communities around the world, which in the Palestinian case can lead to support either Palestinian or Israeli position. The concern for the Christian minority in the Palestinian Authority leads in some cases to criticism of Israeli policies as obstructive to Christians' living conditions and in some cases to criticism of Palestinian policies as a form of persecutions against Christians. * Strategic interests in the region, which compel Washington to lend partial support to Palestinian aspirations in order not to antagonize Arab or other Third World government, as well as to avoid military escalation in case of total despair on the part of the Palestinians. * Public perceptions of national independence movements as terrorists, a view that increased considerably in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This view makes it easier for the Israeli government to justify hawkish stances on grounds of combating terrorism. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Palestine–United States relations」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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