WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Naphtali Bennett, Thursday will try to reset the tone of the As-Israel relationship in a meeting in their first White House and find similarities in Iran despite a difference on how to deal with its nuclear program.
In the talks overshadowed by US-chaotic withdrawals from Afghanistan, the two leaders will try to change pages in the year of tensions between their predecessor Bennett, Benjamin Netanyahu, who are close to former President Donald Trump, and the last Democratic Administration led by Barack Obama with Biden as vice president his.
In what had been planned as a low meeting, Bennett would like to switch from the aggressive general style of Netanyahu and instead of managing the constructive difference of opinion behind the closed door between Washington and the closest to the Allied Middle East.
This visit gave Biden the opportunity to show business as usual with key partners while competing with complex situations in Afghanistan.
Biden’s biggest foreign policy crisis since serving not only hurt his approval at home, but raised questions about credibility among friends and enemies.
The topping agenda is Iran, one of the most difficult problems between the Biden and Israel government.
Bennett, a right-wing politician who ended Netanyahu 12 years was run as Prime Minister in June, is expected to suppress Biden hardens the approach to Iran and negotiations to stop being aimed at reviving international nuclear agreements that Trump is abandoned.
Biden will tell Bennett that he shared Israel’s concern that Iran had expanded his nuclear program but remained committed to during Tehran’s diplomacy, said a senior government official.
AS-Iran negotiations have stopped as Washington waiting for the next step by the president of Iran’s new hardline.
Journalists’ briefing ahead of the meeting, said the official, “since the last government left Iran’s nuclear agreement, the Iranian nuclear program has just been dramatically damaged outside the box.” The official said that if the diplomatic pathway with Iran failed, “there was another way to pursue,” but it’s not complicated.
Bennett has been less openly aggressive but only as insisting like Netanyahu is promised to do whatever is needed to prevent Iran, which views Israel as an existential threat, from building nuclear weapons.
Iran consistently denied looking for a bomb.
Both leaders are expected to speak for a while for a small pool of journalists during their oval office meeting but there will be no shared press conference, limiting the potential of public disputes.
Differences on Palestinian issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Biden and Bennett were also divided.
Biden has renewed support for the solution of two countries after Trump distances itself from the old principle of US policy.
Bennett opposes the Palestinian state.
The consensus between Biden’s maid is that it is now not the time to encourage the resumption of long-active peace talks or the main Israeli concessions, which can shake the diverse Bennett coalition ideology.
But Biden’s maid did not rule out asking Bennett for a simple movement to help avoid the fierce repeat of Israel-Hamas fighting in the Gaza Strip which was caught new US government flat legs earlier this year.
Among the issues that could be appointed in Thursday’s talk was the goal of the re-established government of establishing a consulate in Jerusalem which served Palestine and the Trump was closed.
Biden’s maid has moved carefully in this matter.
The government has also emphasized that opposing further expansion of Jewish settlements on occupied land.
Bennett, 49, the son of American immigrants to Israel, has become a vocal supporter of residential development.
Biden’s advisor was also aware that Israeli officials might worry about the real failure of US intelligence to predict the rapid fall of Afghanistan with the Taliban.
Biden intends to convince Bennett that the end of the US military presence in Afghanistan does not reflect “de-priority” of US commitment to Israel and other Middle Eastern allies, said senior US officials.
Biden will also discuss with Bennett’s back of the screen of efforts to get more Arab countries for a relationship to normalize with Israel, a senior US official said.
This will follow in the footsteps of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco, which reached an agreement with Israel which was brought by the Trump government.
On Wednesday, Bennett met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Minister Lloyd Austin.
He is expected to discuss, among other issues, charging from the Israeli Iron Dome missile defense system relies on fending off rocket attacks from Gaza.