BIDEN-TRUMP: AN ECCENTRIC POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST

The United States, under different presidents and in not always similar situations, have always based their foreign policy in the Middle East on two untouchable elements: political and economic interests; and political and military support for Israel, whatever the circumstances.

Biden and Trump have held and hold a different line in that region? Fundamentally NO, although nuances have been produced outside the molds. In the case of Trump, this was due to his ignorance of the main lines of a foreign policy.

His former security adviser, John Bolton, put it in inelegant terms: “Trump doesn't have a clue about foreign policy; he does not know where some countries are located and even the names of their capitals.

Leaving his advisers aside, and committed to the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to support everything he could ask of him, in the last years of his presidency, Trump agreed to move the US embassy to Jerusalem and decided that Western Sahara belongs to Morocco, violating international law and United Nations resolutions.

When he replaced him, Joe Biden, some of his first decisions were expected to go against it. But he did not. The embassy remains in Jerusalem, with a simple office in Tel Aviv, and Washington maintains that Morocco owns the former Spanish colony.

So where are the differences? In reality they do not exist: Biden has not approved the restoration of relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran, because the republic of the ayatollahs is the sworn enemy of Israel. Trump would have done the same, perhaps using harsher terms against the Saudis.

If there are differences, you should not look for them between Biden and Trump, but between the former and the Republicans. The “Great Old Party, GOP” disapproved of the US's chaotic exit from Afghanistan, and also strongly condemns the White House's immigration policy that keeps the southern gates open.

Another small difference is Biden's treatment of Netanyahu. Trump gave the impression that he was putting himself at the orders of the Jewish leader. Biden hasn't officially invited him to Washington yet, and that's an interesting detail. It is clear that the current president of the United States does not like the Israeli prime minister, and he likes it even less when one of his ministers says that "the Palestinians must be crushed, one by one" (statements by the security minister, Ben -Gvir).

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