Joe Biden accelerates after the truce. The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel has opened a window of opportunity for the White House on foreign policy. There is no China, there is no Russia, there is a return of the United States to the Middle East scene, first of all. After an uncertain start for the American administration, it is time to try to curve the space of the peace negotiation between Gaza and Israel.
The truce holds between Israel and Hamas. Unknowns about the future
by Sharon Nizza
“I pray the truce holds,” Biden said during the joint press conference with iSouth Korean President Moon Jae-in. Its range of action ranges from Eastern Mediterranean (found in the American chessboard) elPacific area. Alongside Moon, Biden looks toned, has cashed in the ceasefire and rides the wave. It supports the position of the party that, without ifs and buts, is on Israel’s side (the democrats “support Israel, period!”). But specifying that there must be Benjamin Netanyahu’s commitment to maintaining stability: “I believe in the words of the Israeli premier”.
The White House repeatedly stresses that the interlocutor is not Hamas, considered a terrorist organization, but the NPC, led by Abu Mazen.
This is a clear political position, a guarantee of all Palestinians and not of a faction. Position witnessed in the facts by the phone call between Secretary of State Tony Blinken and Abu Mazen. The attempt of the White House is to bring diplomatic action back on the institutional tracks: there is the UN with its resolutions, there is the precious mediator called Egypt, there are all the Palestinians and “c ‘is the commitment to rebuild Gaza “.
“I want to say one thing clearly – explains the tenant of the White House during the joint press conference with South Korean President Moon Jae-in – Until the unequivocal right to exist of an independent Jewish state is recognized in the area, there will be no ‘ peace”. Biden he therefore appeals to the international community to take action to “rebuild Gaza”, at the end of the recent tensions, saying he is confident of the truce and of the word of the Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu.
US-South Korea: Moon from Biden with focus on North, China and chips
Then there is the Pacific, the East, the “difficult” nuclear dossier of the North Korea, Xi Jinping’s China, Seoul’s vital interests, Kim Jong-un’s threats, war games in the Taiwan Strait, the attention of an important ally, silent but immanent like Japan.
Meanwhile, while the United States will continue to consult South Korea constantly on developments with North Korea and in favor of freedom of navigation in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, the main objective remains that of a complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. President Joe says so Biden admitting that denuclearization remains an “incredibly difficult goal”.
Moon is the second leader Biden received in the White House after Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. Here the military strategy meets the geopolitics of the vaccine: “550,000 South Korean soldiers will be vaccinated by the United States“. The news comes the day Chinese President Xi Jinping declares that “politicizing the vaccine is wrong”. We are facing the construction of the new post-coronavirus order and, as Henry Kissinger recalls, a new approach must be found with China. Biden’s America is looking for him.
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