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    Would Biden undo Trump's provocative steps in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

    by Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times Sep 02, 2020 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON - If he wins the presidential election, Joe Biden will find a Middle East quite different from the one at the end of the Obama administration.

    Nuclear threats may once again be on the horizon in Iran. Militant groups are on the ascendance in Lebanon and Yemen. And Israelis and Palestinians stand farther away from settling their conflict than they have in a long time.

    Biden says his first task will be repairing much of what he and his supporters consider to be the damage done by President Donald Trump, who demolished long-standing norms and decades of U.S. policy regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

    "Joe Biden will benefit just by not being President Trump," Biden's top foreign policy advisor Tony Blinken said

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