Biden’s Middle East Failure

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Biden’s Middle East Policy Is To Beg The Saudis For Oil, Cave To The Iranians, And Fail To Stand Up For Israel

BIDEN’S MIDDLE EAST TRIP WILL PRIORITIZE THE NEEDS OF EVERYONE BUT THE U.S.

Today Biden began his four-day trip to the Middle East where he will meet with leaders from Israel, the West Bank, Saudi Arabia, and the broader Gulf Cooperation Council.
- This trip was originally tacked onto Biden’s European travel last month, but the White House felt it would be “crazy” and “unnecessarily taxing” for the 79-year-old president.
Biden’s actions leading up to this trip have made it clear that he will not prioritize America and her allies.
- The Biden administration reportedly asked Israeli officials to “avoid actions that could inflame Israeli-Palestinian tensions” ahead of Biden’s trip to the region.
- Biden has made it his goal to rejoin the disastrous Iran Nuclear Deal, providing concession after concession to the world’s largest state sponsor of terror.

RATHER THAN PRIORITIZE AMERICAN ENERGY, BIDEN WILL BEG SAUDI ARABIA FOR OIL

Biden has tried to hide the true reason for visiting Saudi Arabia: to beg the Saudis to pump more oil.
Biden has looked everywhere but the U.S. for solutions to high gas prices.
- Senior Biden administration officials traveled to Venezuela to enter discussions with the illegitimate, criminal Maduro regime to pump more oil.
- Biden’s Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg admitted buying oil from Iran is “on the table.”
- Last summer when gas prices began to increase, Biden asked OPEC and its allies to boost production, and is now asking again.
Since announcing his trip to Saudi Arabia, the White House has tried to downplay the idea that he is going to beg OPEC members to pump more oil.
- Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre argued that “to view engagement with Saudi Arabia on energy security as asking for oil is simply wrong.”

BIDEN WILL DO ANYTHING TO RE-ENTER THE DISASTROUS IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL

Biden is hellbent on rejoining the disastrous Iran Nuclear Deal.
- Iran’s “breakout time”—the time needed to produce enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon—is now at “zero.”
Biden has spent his presidency tripping over himself to get back into the Iran deal, providing the world’s largest state sponsor of terror with concession after concession.
- In an effort to entice Iran to rejoin the nuclear deal, the State Department announced it was waiving sanctions on Iran’s “civilian” nuclear program.
- Biden has failed to enforce sanctions that prohibit Iranian oil imports into China.
- The administration exempted talks about the Iran deal from America’s diplomatic boycott of Putin’s regime.
- The Biden administration is reportedly considering removing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from the terror blacklist.
As Biden bends over backwards for Iran, our enemies are openly bragging about how great the Iran Nuclear Deal is for them.
- Russia’s lead negotiator in the talks, Mikhail Ulyanov, said that “Iran got much more than it could expect” in negotiations.
Through his desperation to rejoin the deal, Biden has chosen to ignore our closest ally in the region, Israel, who has serious concerns over the U.S. reentering the deal.
Biden has falsely blamed the Trump administration for the rise in Iran’s nuclear power rather than his own policies.
- According to one U.N. watchdog, Iran has been enriching large amounts of uranium and has been withholding footage of its monitoring in nuclear sites since 2021.

THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION HAS FAILED TO STRONGLY STAND WITH ISRAEL

The Biden administration has consistently taken steps to undermine America’s relationship with Israel.
In April 2021, Biden allocated $235 million for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in The Near East (UNRWA), which has a history of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel incidents.
- A report by UN Watch found “113 instances of incitement to violence by UNRWA staff” towards Jewish individuals.
- This included instances of idolizing Hitler, claiming Jewish people “want to rule the world and destroy Islam,” and a statement that Jewish people were “responsible for the coronavirus.”
In October, the Biden administration announced plans to open a Palestinian consulate in Jerusalem despite Israel’s objection that the move would delegitimize Israel, destabilize the Middle East, and threaten the security of Israel.
- A Palestinian consulate in Jerusalem would allow the Palestinian government to assume control over portions of the city which the Israeli government opposes.
- Over 200 House Republicans have signed onto a letter urging Biden “not to reopen the Jerusalem consulate.”
- Bar-Ilan University Professor Eytan Gilboa called Biden’s move “very hostile” and “irrational.”
In June, the Biden administration announced that it is establishing a separate diplomatic office, the Office of Palestinian Affairs, in Jerusalem for Palestinians “to appease the Palestinian leadership.”
- This would walk back “the United States’ historic recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital” and could violate the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995.
- The administration has reported that the U.S. ambassador to Israel will not be consulted on issues handled by the new Office of Palestinian Affairs.
- David Milstein, former special assistant to the U.S. ambassador to Israel said the administration’s mission “is to walk back the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, erode Israel's sovereignty over its capital city, and signal support for dividing Jerusalem.”