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President-elect Biden’s Victory a Mideast Game-Changer

Middle Eastern nations are scrambling to decipher the meaning of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump. In Israel, with its significant base of American expatriates, attention is focused on the Abraham Accords – the peace deals so far brokered between the Jewish State and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan – with many wondering whether the existing agreements will survive and whether additional countries will join-on. It isn’t known whether the Biden Administration will be willing to allow the various enticements, including arms deals, to stand. Israelis are proceeding cautiously amid concern that the president-elect’s power base includes individuals and groups in Congress that are less friendly to the Jewish state than previous administrations have been.