The Middle East and the US election: how they could affect each other

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

77% : "With Trump in the White House, annexation becomes a much more active possibility," Khaled Elgindy, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, said.
50% : When Biden put a hold on the delivery of US-made 2,000lb bombs which were being used to flatten residential areas in Gaza, the Israeli prime minister declared it "unconscionable", and later accepted a Republican invitation to address Congress and met Trump.
43% : In his last weeks in office, Trump gave the green light to the assassination of the Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Suleimani.
38% : "There is less certainty over whether a newly elected president Trump would help Netanyahu achieve his longstanding strategic goal: recruiting the US for a decisive attack on Iran's nuclear programme.
34% : "The moment you have an Israeli prime minister with no values, as we have today, and a US president without values like Trump, I'm not sure this bond will continue."
28% : With Trump back in the White House, Netanyahu would not have to deal with US resistance to greater Israeli control, even annexation, of the West Bank.
21% : On the other hand, Trump called off a missile strike on Iran in June 2019 because he thought the likely civilian casualties were disproportionate for a response to the shooting down of a US drone.

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