“When US President Joe Biden lands at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, he will be conducting one of the most unusual trips to Israel ever made by an American president. Biden is not launching a major diplomatic initiative, is not making any far-reaching announcements, is not bringing any significant largesse to either the Israelis or the Palestinians, and the stops in Jerusalem and Bethlehem are only a prelude to the more pressing stop days later in Riyadh. Even if Biden did have an expansive agenda, it would be undermined by the fact that he will be meeting with a transitional Israeli government led by Interim Prime Minister Yair Lapid that does not have the authority to enact significant policy changes in the period between the fall of the government at the end of June and Israeli elections in November. In a variety of ways, Biden’s trip looks anticlimactic before he even boards Air Force One.”

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