{"id":190821,"date":"2021-03-05T07:59:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T12:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=190821"},"modified":"2021-03-05T09:19:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T14:19:15","slug":"kissinger-biden-must-uphold-trump-administrations-brilliant-policy-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kissinger-biden-must-uphold-trump-administrations-brilliant-policy-in-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Kissinger: Biden Must Uphold Trump Administrations \u2018Brilliant\u2019 Policy In The Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkissinger-biden-must-uphold-trump-administrations-brilliant-policy-in-the-middle-east%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=190821&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former secretary of state Henry Kissinger has advised President Joe Biden\u2019s\u00a0administration to continue to uphold the\u00a0\u201cbrilliant\u201d policy in Middle Eastern politics achieved under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Kissinger, who was secretary of state under the Nixon and Ford administrations, made the remarks during a <a href=\"https:\/\/nixonseminar.com\/2021\/03\/the-nixon-seminar-march-2-2021-transcript\/\">seminar from the\u00a0Richard Nixon Foundation<\/a> focused on national security and foreign policy on\u00a0March 3.<\/p>\n<p>Former secretary of state Mike Pompeo, former national security adviser Robert O\u2019Brien, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), and former deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger also participated in the seminar.<\/p>\n<p>Kissinger likened Donald Trump\u2019s diplomatic achievements in the Middle East to\u00a0Nixon\u2019s opening of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-china\">China<\/a> in 1972, and warned that the\u00a0Biden should continue\u00a0the\u00a0tough\u00a0Trump\u00a0policy on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>He also\u00a0called\u00a0the Trump administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/\">Abraham Accords<\/a> a breakthrough in Arab-Israeli relations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that one of the great successes of the previous administration was that they had lined up, that they had achieved two things in the Middle East,\u201d Kissinger said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne, to separate the Palestinian problem from all of the other problems so that it did not become a veto over everything else.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cSecondly, of lining up the Sunni states in actual or potential combination against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-shiite\">Shiite<\/a> states, which is Iran, that was developing a capacity to threaten them.\u00a0I think that this was a brilliant concept. We were just at the beginning of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Abraham Accords,\u00a0brokered by former President Donald Trump, established\u00a0new cooperation and\u00a0normalization between the United States, Israel, and Arab countries such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Sudan, and Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3566700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Peace-1228530509-600x380-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(L-R) Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Donald Trump, and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan hold up documents after participating in the signing of the Abraham Accords where the countries of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates recognize Israel, at the White House in Washington on Sept. 15, 2020. (Saul Loeb\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>It also\u00a0opened up economic, social, and cultural ties between the Arab world and the Jewish state and\u00a0strengthened\u00a0the Gulf\u00a0states\u2019\u00a0and Israel\u2019s defenses against Iran, earning the former president\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-nobel-peace-prize\">Nobel Peace Prize<\/a> nominations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a brilliant concept. We were just at the beginning of it. It was like the beginning of the China opening. The evolution of it was just beginning,\u201d Kissinger said.<\/p>\n<p>Kissinger urged the Biden administration to uphold the current policy in the Middle East cemented by Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should not give up the pressures that exist on Iran until we know where they are heading,\u201d Kissinger said. \u201cIf we break out the Iranian issue from the overall Middle Eastern issue, we run the risk of losing the two achievements, namely of separating the Palestinian issue, which removes it as a veto over everything else, and the Sunni cooperation with Israel, which is unique in its openness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere during Wednesday\u2019s seminar, Former secretary of state Mike Pompeo\u00a0likened\u00a0Trump\u2019s \u201cunique\u201d approach to international affairs and foreign policy to President Nixon\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3713939\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Mike-Pompeo-CPAC-600x408-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference held in the Hyatt Regency in Orlando, Fla., on Feb. 27, 2021. (Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a\u00a0president that came at foreign policy problems in a unique way,\u201d he said of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to make sure the senior people, at least I brought around to the team,\u00a0understood the environment which we were going to be working in and how we were going to effectively deliver operationally President Trump\u2019s foreign policy. So,\u00a0I wanted to make\u00a0sure\u2014while we know Washington is occupied by a lot of folks and a lot of big egos\u2014there were people who were prepared to make sure they were working as part of the team that President Trump wanted to deliver on\u00a0foreign\u00a0policy he had put forward to the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The United States on Feb. 25 launched airstrikes\u00a0against militants in eastern Syria,\u00a0targeting sites connected to Shia militias groups backed by the Iranian regime believed to be involved in recent attacks against U.S. targets in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has also announced that the United States is rejoining or moving to rejoin the pact with Iran, the Paris climate accords, and the United Nations\u2019 Human Rights Council, among other international agreements or entities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former secretary of state Henry Kissinger has advised President Joe Biden\u2019s\u00a0administration to continue to uphold the\u00a0\u201cbrilliant\u201d policy in Middle Eastern politics achieved under the Trump administration. 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