Donald Trump will start this week on the first foreign trip from his second administration with a tour in the Middle East, as he looks forward to securing investment, trade and technology from friendly leaders with deep pockets amid turbulent negotiations on many regional conflicts, including the Israel war in Gaza.
The tour across the Middle East largely His first international journey in 2017When he was recruited in the region as a transactions leader who yearns to secure fast victories and is able to provide support for economic and jius interests to regional property.
His negotiations in Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaQatar and the United Arab Emirates will focus on a number of issues, including oil and trade, investment deals, regional conflicts in Israel, Gaza and Yemen, and negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program among other issues.
But Trump’s main goal is to get out of the region, saying that he set America first, the observers say.
“I think what is looking to get out of this is deals and announce multiple dollars in two dollars,” said Stephen A Cook, his Middle East and African colleague at the Council of Foreign Relations.
He said: “The president’s approach to foreign policy is strongly affected by … his narration from economic governance, which is to look to the wealthy countries in the Gulf and the very large sovereign wealth funds as sources of investment in the United States.”
Trump has already announced the commitment of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to invest one dollar in the American economy and hopes to secure large ticket investments on Monday’s visit. Cook said this would be consistent with America’s first policy of setting the priorities of local interests.
These countries may also seek to reach the exports of semiconductor American conductors, and Saudi Arabia will want to agree on a civil nuclear infrastructure, which was previously linked to the normalization of relations with Israel in the country. At the departure of the previous policy, Trump administration He pointed out that officials are no longer linked.
The Middle East trip is noticeable that the US President’s lack of plans to visit Israel, where Benjamin Netanyahu and his ministry had had Floating plans to launch a greater invasion of Gaza The Palestinian population was expelled there, while critics called a wide plan for ethnic cleansing.
The Israel-Gaza war will wave a great negotiation, as Saudi Arabia said it will not normalize relations with Israel unless there is a clear way to solve two patrols, and many countries in the Middle East have spoken against against A proposal started With Trump to expel a Palestinian from Gaza to other Arab countries.
“He could go to Israel as he did the last time,” said Elliot Abrams, the former deputy National Security Adviser during the era of President George W. Bush and his colleague at the Council of Foreign Relations. He added that Beit Higseth, the Minister of Defense, canceled a planned trip to Israel. “I think there is some tension here … [Israel] He knows that Trump will spend a week in the Gulf session on Gaza, Gaza, Gaza and Gaza every day. Therefore, it is not the best moment in the United States-Israel or Trump’s relations. “
There is an increasing understanding in Washington and Israel Trump took a step back From trying to mediate the war in Gaza. His administration said that they will negotiate a new assistance agreement without the direct participation of the Israeli government to renew the delivery of aid in Gaza, which suffers from the worst humanitarian crisis in the war since the shooting collapsed in March.
“He is the only person who speaks the same language as Netanyahu, the only one who can speak to Netanyahu in a language that Netanyahu will understand,” said Ami Ayalon, the former director of the Israeli security agency, also known as Shin Pitt.
“Trump again, when it comes to the hostage, when it comes to our relations with the Palestinians, it has become the center of everything in the Middle East,” he said.
This turns Trump’s attention into things he can accomplish.
He said that he is planning to make a decision on his journey to Saudi Arabia based on a announcement The United States can refer to the Persian Gulf Or the Gulf of Arabia instead of the Persian Gulf.
This angered Iran at a moment when the Gulf states appear largely to support American efforts in talks about the future of the Iranian nuclear program. Unlike 2017, the Gulf states have spoken to a large extent to support renewable negotiations between the United States and Iran on the nuclear program, but these governments are not clear about the details of any deal so far.
“We have confirmed that there are American data on all these issues, but they have not yet seen our policies,” said John Atirman, the director of the Middle East program in CSIS, Thinktank. “The United States government does not speak with one voice and its actions are still not coordinated.”
In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Trump has recruited his son -in -law Jared Kushner to serve as a point of discussion before the trip, CNN said. It is said that Kushner, who was Trump’s envoy to the region during his first administration, is charged with applying to join the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ibrahim agreements. But his role is also contaminated by conflict with the interests of the perceived interests in view of his family’s commercial interests in the region.
However, with such a complex painting of political and geographical interests in the region, there are questions about whether the Trump administration has a focus and the team to follow a comprehensive policy in the region. Many in Trump’s orbit says that the US policy must put a less priority in the Middle East, and instead focus on China, India and the Pacific.
“I think there is a feeling that there are these pieces that the president is negotiated, and it does not respond together, and that his priority is essentially a local focus and insurance, as you know, agreements to invest in real estate,” said Cook. “At the regional level, the president would like these issues to disappear, and for this reason he has these compressed time schedules that he does not want to focus on.”
