Middle East pending from the United States

The election of the new US president may or may not influence foreign policy. Many analysts in the Middle East have been speculating over the past few days on the new US foreign policy in the region if the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, were to win the White House.

Those who wrote in Iran or Qatar or those in favour of the Muslim Brothers were jubilantly saying that Biden was going to continue with a new Obama period with concessions to his interests. It does not seem that this is the attitude the new president is going to adopt, aware of the need to remain firm in the face of the radicalism of the Islamists of the Brotherhood or the Iranian regime, which is eager to achieve nuclear weapons. These elements pose a threat to the stability of the region, which is now in a new phase with the geostrategic shift brought about by the peace agreement signed by the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain with Israel.

This initiative will be followed by other countries in the coming weeks and is already bearing fruit with effective cooperation for the citizens of these countries in sectors such as finance, research, science, new technologies, energy and other social aspects. Beyond the far-reaching political and security implications On the ground, new opportunities are already being revealed by the achievement of something essential to coexistence in the region, namely the ability of Arabs of the Gulf and Israelis to reach agreements and put years of confrontation behind them.

The accusations made by Trump's election campaign against Biden that he is the candidate of the Muslim Brothers and not of the American Democrats have nothing to do with reality, among other reasons because when he takes office the new US president has an essential mission for the stability and coexistence of the Americans: overcoming the huge polarisation and dangerous division of society that threatens to translate into violent confrontations in the streets.

This is not only the racial problem that has been highlighted in recent weeks by some specific cases of police brutality, but also a widening of political differences caused by a toxic election campaign and the incredible attitude of the Republican candidate, being president, of questioning the legality of the system and the electoral process.

The Democratic candidate was in favour of restoring multilateralism in international relations, particularly in trade, but never offering the United States a weak position vis-à-vis Iran and the radical Islamists.