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Joe Biden speaking with attendees at the 2019 Iowa Federation of Labor Convention (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia) The new Joe Biden administration has begun issuing policy statements about the Middle East and the clear signs are that it will do nothing to try to revive the so-called peace process, and it’s not going to try all that hard on the Iran deal either. Biden obviously has a lot on his plate. But it appears he has told his State Department staff, I’m not spending any political capital to fight the Israel lobby, or the centrist branch of it that wields influence inside the ...

Biden administration’s first signals on the Middle East The new Joe Biden administration has begun issuing policy statements about the Middle East and the clear signs are that it will do nothing to try to revive the so-called peace process, and it’s not going to try all that hard on the Iran deal either. Biden obviously has a lot on his plate. But it appears he has told his State Department staff, I’m not spending any political capital to fight the Israel lobby, or the centrist branch of it that wields influence inside the Democratic Party. Yesterday acting-US ambassador Richard Mills ...

Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu in New Orleans in 2010. Photo by Israeli government press office. Happy holidays and a happy end to 2020! This is Phil Weiss and I’m filling in for Michael Arria on this newsletter this week, and the best value seemed to me to relay what the Democratic Party’s Israel lobby sees as Israel/Palestine policy under a Biden administration. What will Biden do on the conflict? What should he do? And there’s a consensus from Israel’s liberal supporters. Biden won’t push for a two-state solution because there won’t be a Palestinian state in the nex...

Biden's test: Rebuilding the Iran nuclear deal Trump tore apart Tracy Wilkinson © Provided by The LA Times Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, addresses military commanders in Tehran on April 19. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader) President-elect Joe Biden has made no secret that one of his earliest foreign policy objectives will be for the U.S. to rejoin the landmark Iran nuclear deal that the Trump administration has spent four years disparaging and gutting. Restoring the agreement, however, will be among his administration's toughest foreign policy challe...

WASHINGTON —  President-elect Joe Biden has made no secret that one of his earliest foreign policy objectives will be for the U.S. to rejoin the landmark Iran nuclear deal that the Trump administration has spent four years disparaging and gutting. Restoring the agreement, however, will be among his administration’s toughest foreign policy challenges. The president-elect’s team will have to navigate a raft of new Trump-era U.S. sanctions, tweak the deal to garner domestic and international support and convince Iran that it is in its best interest to cooperate. It will also have to wor...