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Saudis worry, Iran and Palestinians hope: What a Biden presidency could mean for the Middle East

  • November 12, 2020

Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are longtime supporters of Israel, but some Israeli officials worry, given the deterioration in U.S.-Israel relations under Obama. 

While Biden is unlikely to reverse any of Trump’s major Israel policy moves like moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, he has voiced his aim of restoring support for Palestinians. That includes “immediate steps to restore economic and humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people, address the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, reopen the U.S. consulate in East Jerusalem, and work to reopen the PLO mission in Washington,” Harris said in early November.  

And according to the Israel-UAE normalization deal, the former has pledged to freeze annexation efforts in the West Bank through 2024, the length of the next presidential term.  

More likely, however, the president-elect “will simply move away from Trump’s pro-annexation policies and return to the traditional U.S. theoretical endorsement of a two-state solution without doing much to advance it, because there’s nothing to work with on either side,” Ibish said.  

“Palestinian leaders are definitely counting on Biden … so that they can repair relations with Washington, which is really important to them.”

Article source: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/11/what-a-biden-presidency-could-mean-for-the-middle-east-.html

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