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President Biden Delivering Remarks In Israel To Kick Off Middle East Trip

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President Biden has touched down in Tel Aviv, Israel to begin a much anticipated tour of the Middle East.

  • He will shortly deliver remarks as he disembarks from Air Force One. Livestream here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
  • Biden will meet caretaker Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
  • The trip comes as polling suggests that Lapid's government will struggle to win a stable majority in the Knesset in the upcoming 1 November election.
  • Foreign Policy writes: “Biden is handing Lapid a diplomatic lay-up by participating in a signing ceremony as part of the trip."
  • Most observers will be more interested in the second leg of the trip when Biden travels to Saudi Arabia for two key meetings. The first will be a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council, the second will be a bilateral meeting with the Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud which will be attended by the de facto Saudi leader Mohammad bin Salman.
  • Biden is expected to push the Gulf oil producers to increase oil production but will likely have limited success.

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