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Many political and military leaders in Israel do not hide their happiness with US President Joe Biden's visit to Israel and the Middle East, because it achieves many of the demands and goals that Tel Aviv has sought to achieve in the past years.

According to Israeli political analysts, Biden's visit sent several messages;

Perhaps the most prominent of them is Washington's affirmation of Washington's commitment to protecting Israel's security, as well as expanding the circle of normalization and launching a regional defense alliance against Iran, with the absence of the political core of the Palestinian cause and the restriction of the humanitarian aspect.

Biden arrived this afternoon, Wednesday, to Israel;

The first leg of his visit to the Middle East. He is scheduled to sign with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid a joint statement called the "Jerusalem Declaration" confirming Washington's commitment to supporting Israel's security and not allowing Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon.

Biden's visit to Tel Aviv, which comes amid the worsening governance crisis in Israel and the fifth Knesset elections in less than 4 years;

It carried with it assurances from Washington that Israel would remain the most prominent strategic ally in the Middle East, where it would enjoy political, military and security support.

In an indication of the absence of a clash between the two countries over the Iranian nuclear file, the Biden administration alluded to the harmony of Tel Aviv and Washington's position against Iran, and the two parties' agreement on the need to prevent Tehran from acquiring weapons of mass destruction or a nuclear bomb, with a commitment to work to limit Iran's influence in the Middle East Through the defense alliance led by Washington under the pretext of "Iranian threats".

Contrary to the Iranian file, which Washington seems to be dealing with with a kind of diplomatic strictness, analysts and specialists in the Israeli affairs believe that Washington is pushing to expand normalization agreements between Israel and more Arab and Islamic countries, amid the absence of the Palestinian issue.


festive and historical

Nimrod Gorn, director of the Israeli Institute, Mitvim, which specializes in foreign policies for Israel and the Middle East, says that Biden's visit is seen in Israel as ceremonial and historic, because it comes at the height of strengthening the alliance and harmony between the two countries on various regional issues, which reflects the convergence of regional interests. And assure the countries of the Middle East that the gateway to the White House passes through Israel.

Goren reviewed for Al Jazeera the goals that Israel seeks to achieve through Biden's visit, noting that these goals revolve around showing the depth of the strategic alliance between the two countries and Washington's endless support for Israel and granting it international immunity against any challenges.

In addition to launching the defense alliance with Arab partnership, Israeli leadership and American leadership against Iran, and strengthening cooperation and investments in the Israeli security and military industries.

With regard to the Palestinian issue, Goren explained that Biden's visit to East Jerusalem, although it carried a political message regarding the Palestinian issue, but its essence is limited to the human dimension through supporting the health sector, and there is no indication of an American recognition of East Jerusalem as the capital of the Palestinian state in a case such as the establishment of such This state, he put it.

He pointed out that Israel is betting on Washington's success in leading the joint defense alliance in the Middle East and strengthening the partnership with what Tel Aviv calls "the axis of moderate Arab countries", by expanding the normalization agreements to include major Islamic countries.


support and harmony

On the internal Israeli political level, political analyst Akiva Eldar believes that Biden's visit, which comes at the height of the Knesset election campaign, can be interpreted as support for the camp, party alliances, and any Israeli government in harmony with the US administration, which is pushing to strengthen relations with Israel and intensify investments in the Israeli defense and defense industries. .

Eldar suggested that caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid, as well as the camp to which he belongs, will seek to reap the fruits and reap the results of the visit and use them in the electoral campaign, whether with regard to the Iranian nuclear file and obtaining a public pledge of Washington's commitment not to Iran reaching a nuclear bomb, or with regard to continuing normalization and alliance defense with Arab and Islamic countries, without paying any price or making concessions on the Palestinian cause.

The political analyst believes that the success and achievement of Biden's visit from the Israeli point of view is summed up in the joint "Jerusalem Declaration" for Lapid and Biden, and not to put pressure on Israel on the Palestinian file, while paving the way for cooperation between Israel and Saudi Arabia, and establishing a new stage of normalization.

Regardless of the political and electoral developments in Israel, where Lapid is looking forward to reaping the fruits of Biden's visit in the Knesset elections to be held on November 1, the researcher in Israeli affairs, Antan Shalhat, believes that Israel is interested in two files and places them in the list of priorities: the first, the Iranian file The American position seemed to be getting closer to the Israeli position, with the existence of semi-understandings between the two countries preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

As for the second file, as researcher Shalhat says to Al Jazeera Net, it is related to the issue of normalization, as it became clear that the main title of normalization for Israel is Saudi Arabia, which is the largest oil producer and an important and pivotal country regionally, Arably and globally.

He pointed out that the visit aims to strengthen military security relations between the two countries, as Biden is visiting with delegations from 27 American arms companies the defense systems and the Israeli air industries.


Biden and Trump

Writer and political analyst Suleiman Abu Arshid agrees with Antan Shalhat's proposal regarding everything related to the balance of success, failure and concerns from the Israeli point of view regarding Biden's visit and what it will entail in the future, stressing that the Palestinian issue is absent from the essence of Biden's talks in Tel Aviv, and this is one of the most important gains that It satisfies Israel, which feared that Washington would put pressure on it to return to political negotiations with the Palestinian Authority.

Abu Arshid believes - in his speech to Al-Jazeera Net - that the administration of President Biden does not have a clear-cut political plan regarding the Palestinian issue in particular, and on this basis the issue is marginalized and absent.

He added that Washington's harmony with Israel and the rearrangement of the cards in the Middle East through "soft diplomacy" is another facet of the "Deal of the Century" plan, which publicly aimed to liquidate the Palestinian cause.

Abu Arshid believes that the axes and contents of the US President's visit to Israel and the Middle East show that Biden is following in the footsteps of former President Donald Trump;

Marginalizing the Palestinian cause and absolute support and loyalty to Israel, expanding the circle of normalization, and strengthening the Arab-Israeli alliance and the “axis of aggression” under the pretext of confronting the so-called “Iranian threat.”