Washington: Biden will discuss in Israel and Saudi Arabia energy security and the Iron Dome

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[size=52]Washington: Biden will discuss in Israel and Saudi Arabia energy security and the Iron Dome[/size]

[size=45]Riyadh: King Salman invited the US President to visit in mid-June[/size]
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[size=45]Washington - Morsi Abu Touq[/size]
[size=45]A senior US official announced that President Joe Biden will go on a direct flight from Israel to Saudi Arabia, which will constitute A precedent for an American president, during a visit to the region in mid-July.[/size]
[size=45]The official said that "the president will make a direct trip from Israel to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia" during his visit to the city Zone from 13 to 16 July. This will be the first time that an American president will make a direct trip from Israel to an Arab country Recognize the Hebrew state.[/size]
[size=45]The US official said that President Joe Biden will meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman next month. Although the intelligence services in Washington accused the latter of ordering the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.[/size]
[size=45]"We can expect that the president will meet the crown prince" during his visit to Saudi Arabia, the official said July.[/size]
[size=45]US President Joe Biden will also participate in a virtual summit with the leaders of the I2 - U2 group, which includes India And Israel, the UAE and the United States during his visit to the Middle East next month.[/size]
[size=45]For its part, the Saudi Royal Court said on Tuesday that US President Joe Biden will visit the Kingdom on the 15th of this month And next July 16.[/size]
[size=45]The statement stated that it was at the kind invitation of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud And in order to strengthen the historical bilateral relations and the distinguished strategic partnership between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States of America, and the common desire In its development in all fields, President Joseph Biden, President of the friendly United States of America, is paying an official visit to Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on 16 and 17 Dhu al-Hijjah 1443 AH, corresponding to 15 and 16 July 2022 AD, During which he will meet with the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, and His Royal Highness Prince Muhammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince and Deputy Prime Minister, to discuss aspects of cooperation between the two friendly countries , and discuss ways to confrontChallenges facing the region and the world.[/size]
[size=45]A senior US official told reporters on Tuesday that the summit would witness "talks on the food security crisis and other issues." Areas of cooperation across the hemisphere, with the United Arab Emirates and Israel being important centers of innovation.”[/size]
[size=45]This will be his first visit to the Middle East as president. He will meet with Israeli and Saudi leaders, and participate in a summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Saudi Arabia.[/size]
[size=45]Biden seeks to persuade the Saudis to increase their oil production, in order to stop the rise in fuel prices and inflation in his country Which sees midterm elections in November. This election is considered accurate for the Democratic Party, to which Biden belongs.[/size]
[size=45]His meeting with Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, will mark a controversial change in his diplomatic policy.[/size]
[size=45]During the election campaign that led him to the presidency in 2020, Biden considered the killing and dismemberment of the Saudi journalist His parties in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018, made Saudi Arabia a "pariah state".[/size]
[size=45]But no one cares about the words of the elections, and the White House wants to   preserve its interests first.[/size]
[size=45]Khashoggi was a US-based dissident journalist who published articles for the Washington Post.[/size]
[size=45]And a report by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) considered that Prince Mohammed bin Salman is one of the He ordered the murder of Khashoggi.[/size]
[size=45]Without presenting any evidence against the prince, what observers consider an American attempt to blackmail and pressure to move American files stuck in the area. "We expect the president to meet the crown prince" during his visit to the kingdom, a US official told the media on Tuesday He added that "American policy required a reassessment of relations (...) not a rupture" after a crime Khashoggi was murdered. He pointed out that Saudi Arabia has been a strategic partner of the United States for eight decades and is inhabited by nearly eighty thousand Americans. The White House stated that "energy security" will be a major focus of Biden's visit to Saudi Arabia. However, US officials indicated that the tour has broader diplomatic goals.[/size]
[size=45]"The visit to the Middle East marks the culmination of months," White House spokeswoman Karen-Jean-Pierre said Several diplomacy,” not dictated by internal considerations.[/size]
[size=45]Biden will meet with ten officials during the short but intense tour, and the visit, according to a senior US official, will mark "The return of American leadership."[/size]
[size=45]The visit will begin with a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. Biden visited Israel for the first time nearly fifty years ago when he was a member of the Senate.[/size]
[size=45]The conversation with Bennett will deal with American support for the Israeli army, especially the anti-missile air defense system, “ Iron Dome,” against the backdrop of tensions fueled by the failure so far to revive the agreement on the Iranian nuclear file Which was concluded between Tehran and six major countries, and Washington withdrew from it during the presidency of Donald Trump. "The president will likely visit in Israel an area where it is used," the US official said, declining to be named These systems and talks about the latest inventions in our two countries in the field of using anti-missile laser technologies and dangers other air.[/size]
[size=45]He stressed that Biden "will renew Israel's firm commitment to Israel's security."[/size]
[size=45]Biden will also meet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, likely in Bethlehem, according to the same source.[/size]
[size=45]He will renew his "permanent commitment to a two-state solution", Israeli and Palestinian, and will seek to restore heat to relations. With the Palestinian authorities cut off almost completely during Trump's term.[/size]
[size=45]At the end of his tour, Biden heads to Saudi Arabia at a station that will cause widespread controversy and will also print history, as He will transfer on a plane that will take him directly from Israel to Jeddah, and he will be the first American president to arrive in an Arab country He does not establish relations with Israel, starting from Israeli land. His predecessor had boarded a flight from Saudi Arabia to Israel in 2017.[/size]
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