That is the opinion of North Carolina's Democratic Governor Roy Cooper, who
was overheard on a hot mic as he assured Joe Biden:
“I think we’re gonna all get across the line. I think Cal’s gonna get across
the line, too. I know that’s frustrating. We’ll get him across.”
[emphasis added]
There was a time when scandals had consequences, but Cunningham is laying low
for the duration of his campaign and may just win.
Speaking of Joe Biden, there is no clear indication of what effect the
questions surrounding his son Hunter will have on the presidential election.
Like Cunningham, Joe Biden has not mounted a counter-attack against the
accusations.
Then again, why should he?
The only thing getting more attention than the apparent scandal surrounding
Biden's son, is the transparent attempt of the media -- both social and
mainstream -- to bury the issue.
In the last few weeks I’ve heard from multiple well-known journalists going
through struggles in their newsrooms, with pressure to avoid certain themes
in campaign coverage often central to their worries. There are many
reporters out there — most of them quite personally hostile to Donald Trump
— who are grating under what they perceive as relentless pressure to publish
material favorable to the Democratic Party cause.
We'll soon see how successful that pressure has been.
Putting domestic politics aside, there is an apparent effort, on an
international level, to help an old favorite finally cross the finish line.
In an exclusive interview with Al-Monitor, the Permanent Observer of Palestine
to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, sounded upbeat about the interest of the
world community in participating in the suggested conference due to take place
after the inauguration of a new US president in 2021.
The Security
Council discussions revealed
near-unanimous support for the initiative presented by Abbas at the UN
General Assembly on Sept. 25. [emphasis added]
The US of course is fully in support of The Abraham Accords and has made a
point of letting Abbas know that the Palestinian Authority is no longer going
to get a free ride.
Nevertheless, according to Al-Monitor:
Comments at the Security Council session showed that France, Germany,
Belgium, China and others all spoke in support of the conference. Even the
United States and Israel, who are opposed to the idea, were
forced to engage
with the concept and take it seriously in their deliberation.
U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craft was skeptical that a conference would produce
results, but said the Trump administration, Israel’s closest and most
important ally, was open to the possibility raised by Abbas.
“We
have no objection to meeting with international partners to discuss the issue.
But I have to ask, how is this different than every other meeting convened
on this issue over the past 60 years?” she asked the council.
Israel’s new U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan
opposed the Palestinian call,
accusing Abbas of refusing “every peace offer made by the state of
Israel”
and attacking Israel’s recent agreements with the United Arab Emirates,
Bahrain and Sudan instead of viewing them as “a new opportunity to kick-start
negotiations.”
The fact is that there is no indication that there is anything new being
offered here.
Is this a serious attempt to achieve a two-state solution or just an attempt
to help Abbas out of a jam, 'saving' him from having to make the kinds of
concessions required for peace, and failing to do so -- proving how irrelevant
he really is?
What makes all of this possible of course are the presidential elections this
week.
This conference is only feasible if Biden becomes president, since he would be
expected to support this old, failed approach to peace.
Joe Biden, as Obama's vice president, would never have seen the potential of
diplomacy that would focus on the benefits of normalizing relations between
Israel and Arab countries. During the Obama administration, their foreign
policy achievements were restoring diplomatic relations with Myanmar and Cuba
while strengthening Iran.
As president, Biden (and Kamala Harris) would be amenable to the insistence of
the progressive wing of the Democratic party to take up the cause of the
Palestinian Arabs -- something not at the top of the agenda of the Gulf
states.
Also, there is every reason to believe that Biden, and Harris would push for
relaxing sanctions on Iran and for the re-establishment of the Iran deal in
one form or another which would only set much of the Arab world on edge and
help to push many of those Arab countries into the arms of Israel, to begin
with.
The future of the Middle East will depend to a great extent on this week's
elections and on Europe's old habits and knee-jerk response to the region, as it
attempts to save Abbas and the Palestinian Authority from the changing Arab
world.
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