He will meet with Israel’s interim prime minister and will coincide with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, who promised to turn Biden into an “outcast” after the death of journalist Jamal Kashoggi
United States President Joe Biden will embark on a tour in Israel this Wednesday that will also take him to the West Bank and Saudi Arabia until the following day 16. On his first visit since taking office, in January 2021, he will find an area that has changed a lot since his last trip as Vice President to Barack Obama in 2016.
The main novelty is the normalization of diplomatic relations between Israel and several Arab states – Morocco, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain – following the Abraham Agreements, signed in 2020 under the auspices of the Trump administration.
In Israel, the US’s main ally in the area, he will be met by the interim Prime Minister, Yair Lapid, following the collapse of the coalition led by Naftali Bennet. The country is holding its fifth election in three years in November and former Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, with whom Trump had a close relationship, is the favourite. On the table are matters such as the formation of a bloc to counter Iran’s influence or the negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program. Biden will also visit the occupied territories in the West Bank, but he is not scheduled to address the Israel-Palestine peace process.
The second part of your journey will be more uncomfortable. At a summit with other leaders in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, he will coincide with the kingdom’s crown prince, Mohammed Bin Salman, who promised to turn Biden himself into a “pariah” after US intelligence designated him as responsible for journalism. . murder of Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
In any case, the Democratic leader’s visit cannot be abstracted from the international context, marked by the war in Ukraine and the energy crisis it has caused. In recent days, Biden has asked Riyadh and other members of OPEC+ (an organization that groups oil-producing countries including Russia) to increase crude oil production to help stabilize prices.
Source: La Verdad
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