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The two big moves in early US Middle East policy
Three months is a very short time, especially in the life of a new administration scrambling to fill positions, review policy, and launch initiatives. And although the incoming administration’s priorities are largely domestic and in the foreign policy arena, their priorities are on global issues like climate change and fighting COVID or otherwise on China and Asia Middle East policy has seen important movement, particularly on Iran and Afghanistan.
The decision to find a pathway back into the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran was signaled loudly during the campaign, and it has translated into indirect talks in Vienna. Predictably, Iran has been testing the new administration with limited escalations in various theaters, partly to take the measure of the new president, and partly as a way to gain leverage in the negotiations. Despite their wide differences, the American and Iranian “administrations” both h
Posted on April 29, 2021.
France, the Arab League and most of the Gulf countries and ethnic communities in Lebanon want to distance themselves from regional conflicts and save Lebanon from crisis. So why did Biden give priority to UNRWA?
Since his election and even before having 100 days of grace, President Joe Biden has made decisions which affect us and are raising eyebrows in our region. Right now, he looks like a politician who is trying to erase whatever his predecessor did, not like a statesman with an organized political plan.
For example, Biden decided to renew financial aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees. As if he didn’t know the details about the organization. UNRWA’ s raison d’etre is to perpetuate the refugee problem instead of solving it. As if the president has not heard that UNRWA registers the descendants of refugees from 1948 as if they themselves were refugees. As if he had never heard of Jewish refugees who were expe