Biden's plan to revive Iran talks could calm the Middle East – but on Israel he and Trump largely agree
Biden's plan to revive Iran talks could calm the Middle East – but on Israel he and Trump largely agree
When the Taliban recently voiced its hope that Donald Trump would win a second term because he would withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, it was a reminder that the 2020 U.S. election has big implications for the Middle East – and, by consequence, for American national security.Foreign policy barely registers on Americans' election agenda this year in a race dominated by the coronavirus pandemic, economic woes and structural racism. Nonetheless, the United States' global role is on the ballot in November. Trump has an "America First" vision in which narrowly defined U.S. interests rank as more important than helping maintain the global order. Biden, whose decades of foreign policy experience include chairing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wants to restore the United States' international stature.A Biden win would change American foreign policy significantly. But my research on U.S. policy in the Middle East suggests the United States' actual engagement there might only show cosmetic changes. Trump's Mideast policyTrump came to office promising to tame Iran, end the Islamic State and make "the deal of the century" between Israel and the Palestinians. But he has executed no grand strategy in the Middle East. Today Iran is emboldened, there's no Israeli-Palestinian peace deal and, despite Trump's claims, the Islamic State still exists. Trump withdrew the U.S. from a 2015 international agreement that restricted Iran's nuclear program in exchange for lifting sanctions. But restoring sanctions has not curbed the Iranian government's regional influence, much less forced regime change. New sanctions just imposed on Iran's banking system, for example, are mostly just making life harder for ordinary Iranians during a pandemic by reducing the value of the Iranian currency. One consistency in Trump's Middle East policy is Israel. Trump steadfastly supports its escalating opposition to Iran and aggressive policies in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza territories. Trump also departed from decades of settled U.S. policy on Israel's capital, Jerusalem – a holy city for Muslims that the Palestinians likewise claim as their capital – by moving the U.S. embassy there from Tel Aviv. This shift angered Muslim nations across the Middle East and beyond, and effectively killed hopes of peace with Israel. The Trump White House scored one diplomatic victory in the region by normalizing relations between Israel and two Arab nations, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. In numbers, that matches what presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter together achieved in the Middle East: Carter normalized Israeli ties with Egypt and Clinton with Jordan. But without a just solution to Palestinian demands for statehood, critics say, genuine peace with Arabs is not possible. Either way, Trump has unquestionably altered the geopolitics of the Middle East, pushing aside Israel-Palestine as the region's main conflict. For both the U.S. and leading Arab nations, the priority is now stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons and reducing Iranian attacks on American interests and allies. Biden's challengesIf Biden wins the election, he would have to contend with more hostile U.S.-Iran relations than what he and Barack Obama bequeathed to Trump in 2016. In a CNN op-ed when Biden promised to rejoin the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Biden wrote that through greater cooperation, he believes Iran can be pacified. Rejoining the deal – signed by the U.S., China, Russia and several European powers – would have the effect of improving frayed U.S. cooperation with those nations, too. But increased engagement with Iran would hurt U.S.-Saudi relations, which have grown closer under Trump's son-in-law and Mideast adviser, Jared Kushner. Saudi Arabia is entangled in what it considers to be a zero-sum struggle with Iran for domination of the Gulf region. The Saudis see U.S. pressure on Iran as a key component of its strategy to contain Iranian influence. Biden has also signaled that the U.S. will no longer support Saudi Arabia in its devastating intervention in Yemen's civil war. Iraq, Syria and Libya are all also embroiled in civil wars, conflicts that Biden – who believes the U.S. has "an obligation to lead" – would have to decide how to engage with. Biden would also contend with a new development in the Middle East: Turkey, which now has military presence in Syria, Iraq, Qatar and Libya. Trump has largely accommodated Turkey's growing regional assertion of its influence. Israel-PalestineBiden's rhetoric about Israel differs from Trump's. In May he came out publicly against Israel's proposed annexation of the West Bank – an inflammatory plan that the Trump administration may have quietly opposed but would not condemn. Israel has since suspended that plan as part of the United Arab Emirates deal.But there's no sign the United States' Israel policies would differ substantively under Biden. His campaign has repeatedly stated its "ironclad" support for Israel, condemning any effort to boycott the country or withhold aid to force policy change. As vice president, Biden in 2016 helped get the country its biggest ever U.S. aid package, US$38 billion. Biden has already announced he would not move the U.S. embassy back to Tel Aviv if elected.The U.S. is Israel's strongest ally. Every American president since 1973 has given substantial foreign aid and military technology to the Israelis while shielding Israel from international condemnation over its policies toward Palestinians.[Deep knowledge, daily. Sign up for The Conversation's newsletter.]Palestinians almost certainly won't get their land back under Biden. But they could get more money and political support. Biden promises to restore some of the $600 million in U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority and to the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, among other agencies. Trump eliminated that funding last year in a failed effort to force Palestinians to accept his peace plan. Obama created some goodwill in the Mideast, which may help Biden. But the region presents challenges that have for decades stymied American presidents, Democratic and Republican alike.This article is republished from The Conversation, a nonprofit news site dedicated to sharing ideas from academic experts. It was written by: Muqtedar Khan, University of Delaware.Read more: * Has Trump proposed a Middle East peace plan – or terms of surrender for the Palestinians? * Arms and influence in the Khashoggi affairMuqtedar Khan is the academic director of the American Foreign Policy Institute at the University of Delaware, which has received a SUSI grant from the U.S. Department of State.
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Тот или иной особняк стартует с двери: собственно она создает основное впечатление о квартире, в связи с этим ее внешний вид и проектирование должны отвечать всему внутреннему облачению апартаментов.
Для того чтобы двери межкомнатные харьков, потребно для начала ухватить суть дела в море интересных предложений от создателей межкомнатных дверей. Подбор дверей может быть обусловлен всяческими причинами. Из-за этого прежде чем межкомнатные двери выбрать, надлежит определиться с фасоном, окраской, облицовкой и разработчиком. Межкомнатные двери должны соответствовать интерьеру Вашего помещения, не выбиваться из общей идеи и быть самобытной составной частью. Выбор межкомнатных дверей на рынке Украины в достаточной степени основательный. Самыми прославленными есть шпонированные, ламинированные двери с ПВХ обтяжкой.
Деревянные двери - это такие межкомнатные двери оплатить которые Вы можете на будь какой вкус. Двери, обшитые шпоном дорогих типов деревьев, нисколько не уступают по содержанию дверям, созданным по другим способам, и являются самыми известными среди всех версий и типов дверей. Они отнюдь не искривляются при смене сырости и градуса среды в комнате. Шпонированные межкомнатные двери заказать Вы сможете подешевле, чем межкомнатные двери из древесины, при этом на облик их не вероятно различить. Ламинированные двери отличаются от прочих специальным видом конструкции, а с внешней стороны они обшиты экологически чистым элементом ( ламинатом ), ядром которго значатся натуральные волокна. Ламинатин не выгорает со временем, не ухудшается и отменно устойчив к разности температуры и увеличенной влаге. Ламинированные межкомнатные двери выбрать реально совершенно в любом духе и по доступной цене. Достоинством ламинированных межкомнатных дверей значится то, что за ними крайне просто ухаживать, они стабильны к царапинам, толчкам и сколам.
Ещё одной разновидностью дверей есть межкомнатные двери, каковые вакуумируются современным синтетическим сырьем - поливинилхлоридом (ПВХ). Облицованные этим материалом межкомнатные двери выбрать допустимо по условно невысокой стоимости. Материал ПВХ ни капли не отравляющий, не воспламеняющийся и обладает высочайшей устойчивостью к разности температуры и влажности.
Sen. Schumer, McConnell spar over COVID relief bill
Schumer is not impressed with McConnell's latest proposal. The Senate minority leader, Charles Schumer, believes Republicans and Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell are the reason an agreement on a COVID-19 relief hasn't been made. On a call with reporters on Sunday, The Hill reports that Schumer says Senate Republicans are the "No. 1 reason there's no agreement," and they "won't even go along with what Trump is willing" to get done.
Алюминий в чушках
Первичный алюминий А0 (технической чистоты) поставляется по ГОСТ 11069-2001. Содержание алюминия не менее 99,70%. Содержание других веществ: кремний 0,15 железо 0,16 медь 0,01 марганец 0,03 магний 0,02 цинк 0,04 галлий 0,03 титан 0,01 прочие примеси не более 0,03 каждой в отдельности. Слиток отмечается двумя черными вертикальными полосами.
Алюминий А0 поставляется чушками. Вес одной чушки: 14-16 килограмм. Чушки упаковываются в пачки, вес каждой пачки от 800 до 1000 кг. Купить алюминий А0 в чушках вы можете в компании "Алюминий" А7 в чушках от производителя алюминий купить. Минимальная партия поставки алюминия А0 от 20 тонн. По договоренности возможна поставка меньшего тоннажа, но не менее одной пачки слитков. Т. е. пачки не распаковываются.
Bloomberg Gun Control Group Pours $4.4 Million into Battleground States in Final Weeks
Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun-control advocacy group founded by former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, is spending $4.4 million on ads in six battleground states in the final weeks of the presidential election campaign, Politico reported on Monday.The group is spending a total of $60 million on ads in 2020 election races. In Texas, Everytown is running $2 million worth of ads attacking Republican candidates in the state's 22nd and 24th congressional districts over their support for gun rights. Another $1.4 million has been devoted to flipping state legislatures in Texas, Arizona, North Carolina, Iowa, and Minnesota, while $1 million is focused on voter mobilization efforts in Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Arizona, North Carolina, and Texas.Some of the ads attempt to connect the coronavirus pandemic with casualties of gun violence."Deaths from Covid-19 and gun violence are on the rise, but Republicans in the North Carolina state legislature have failed to take the action required to keep us safe," one digital ad reads."At the onset of the pandemic, "everyone asked, 'was the political zeitgeist scrambled?' And we asked ourselves the same question," Everytown president John Feinblatt told Politico. "Our polling showed us, when you couple the dual carnage of Covid and gun violence to legislative failure to address both emergencies, it's particularly potent."Gun sales have surged across the U.S. during the coronavirus pandemic. The FBI has conducted record numbers of background checks, with 2.7 million in March at the start of the pandemic and 3.9 million in June, after widespread demonstrations and riots broke out in various cities.
A Texas woman in her 30s died of COVID-19 earlier this year while waiting for her plane to take off
The woman reportedly had trouble breathing and required supplemental oxygen before she died while her plane was on the tarmac in Arizona.
China denies report it may detain Americans, says U.S. mistreats its scholars
China denied on Monday that foreign nationals are under threat of arbitrary detention, following a newspaper report that Beijing had warned Washington it might arrest Americans in China. The Chinese foreign ministry said it was Washington that was mistreating foreign citizens, accusing the United States of "outright political repression" of Chinese academics. "The U.S. claim that foreign nationals in China are under threat of arbitrary detention is playing the victim and confusing black and white," Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a regular news briefing.
Aeroflot Airlines crew members helped smuggle $50 million worth of stolen iPads, iPhones, and more into Russia, a government investigation has found
The Department of State has revoked 113 visas of Aeroflot employees in connection to the smuggling scheme.
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Первичный алюминий А0 (технической чистоты) поставляется по ГОСТ 11069-2001.
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