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Biden plans final Middle East ceasefire push, but will leaders ignore him?

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will make a final push for elusive deals to end the wars in Gaza and Lebanon, but Donald Trump’s election may leave Washington without enough leverage to bend the warring sides to its will before he becomes president.

Senior US officials who have spent months crisscrossing the Middle East for peace negotiations are now likely to face counterparts reluctant to take big steps, preferring instead to wait for Trump’s inauguration in January, according to sources familiar with the matter and independent analysts.

Trump has promised to bring peace to the Middle East but has not said how. If his first term is any indication, however, he is likely to pursue a strongly pro-Israel approach, going beyond the support given by President Joe Biden to Washington’s top regional ally.

Ahead of a second Trump presidency, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Thursday: “We will continue to pursue an end to the war in Gaza, an end to the war in Lebanon, the surge of humanitarian assistance, and that is our duty to pursue those policies right up until noon on January 20.”

But with Biden now a lame duck, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a close Trump ally, and Arab leaders, will likely do little to accommodate the Democratic president and may take their cues from his Republican successor.

“They’ve got substantially less leverage,” said Brian Finucane, senior adviser to the International Crisis Group’s US program. “People may still answer their phone calls, but everyone is looking forward to a new administration, one that will have different policies and priorities.”

Hedging their bets

Since Trump’s victory in Tuesday’s election against Vice President Kamala Harris, Arab and Israeli officials have already begun hedging their bets.

Egyptian mediators who have been working with US and Qatari counterparts on Gaza ceasefire proposals are waiting to see how Trump’s plans take shape for the Palestinian enclave, Egyptian security sources said.

As the world watched the US election on Tuesday, Netanyahu — who left little doubt as to his preference for Trump and hailed his win as “historic” — sacked his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, depriving the Biden administration of one of its favored Israeli partners.

The Hamas and Hezbollah terror groups in Gaza and Lebanon both appeared to be looking past Biden to the incoming Trump administration. Hamas urged Trump to “learn from Biden’s mistakes,” and Hezbollah said it did not hold out much hope for a shift in US policy away from support for Israel.

Both have been fighting Israel for more than a year following Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel, where over 1,200 people were murdered and over 250 captured and taken to Gaza as hostages. Hezbollah began attacking Israel’s north a day later in support of the Gazan terrorists, sparking the conflict there.

Palestinian Authority officials said that they expected to be working with Biden aides right up to when Trump takes office.

Meanwhile, Iran’s direct attacks on Israel and Israel’s retaliations have raised fears of a broader regional war.

Washington sought to revive the Gaza ceasefire talks after Israel killed Hamas’s terror chief Yahya Sinwar in mid-October, but the effort has so far gone nowhere. In Lebanon, US officials have said they have made progress but a final deal has yet to be reached. 

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will make a final push for elusive deals to end the wars in Gaza and Lebanon, but Donald Trump’s election may leave Washington without enough leverage to bend the warring sides to its will before he becomes president.

Senior US officials who have spent months crisscrossing the Middle East for peace negotiations are now likely to face counterparts reluctant to take big steps, preferring instead to wait for Trump’s inauguration in January, according to sources familiar with the matter and independent analysts.

Trump has promised to bring peace to the Middle East but has not said how. If his first term is any indication, however, he is likely to pursue a strongly pro-Israel approach, going beyond the support given by President Joe Biden to Washington’s top regional ally.

Ahead of a second Trump presidency, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Thursday: “We will continue to pursue an end to the war in Gaza, an end to the war in Lebanon, the surge of humanitarian assistance, and that is our duty to pursue those policies right up until noon on January 20.”

But with Biden now a lame duck, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a close Trump ally, and Arab leaders, will likely do little to accommodate the Democratic president and may take their cues from his Republican successor