During his inauguration, Ronald ReaganRepublican, had an ace up his sleeve: the release of the 66 American citizens and diplomats who had been kidnapped for 444 days in the embassy of USA in Tehran. The currency of the so-called disciples of the imam, students enrolled in the Islamic Revolutionwas the delivery of deposed shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi to be judged in Iran. It didn’t happen. It was January 20, 1981, a crucial date due to the outcome of a crisis, that of the hostages, that had begun on November 4, 1979, during the government of Jimmy CarterDemocrat.
As Carter flew back to his home in Georgiaafter having failed with economic sanctions against the regime of Ayatollah KhomeiniReagan entered with the right foot into the White House. He had resolved, as president-elect, a delicate matter. As delicate, perhaps, as the outcome of the hundreds of hostages in Hamas from the massacre of October 7, 2023 in Israel. In this case, another Republican, donald trumpthe release of part of those hostages is awarded before another January 20, 2025. Joe Biden agrees with the late Carter in the limping of their respective governments on the eve of the transition.
In the first phase of the agreement, according to Biden, the troops of Israel They withdraw from Palestinian territory to allow the release of a third of those kidnapped in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
Trump and Biden met at Carter’s funeral in Washington National Cathedral. Pure coincidence 11 days before Trump’s second term, the first to sing cheers for the imminent outcome of the mediation with Israel and Hamasundertaken by USA, Qatar and Egyptto rescue the Israeli hostages. Biden claims merit as one of the “most difficult negotiations I have ever experienced” while Trump boasts of having achieved an “epic ceasefire” as a result of “our historic victory in the November (presidential elections).
Game of egomaniacs in the middle of another reality. That of 1,200 Israelis killed in a single day, during the onslaught of Hamasand that of 46,000 Palestinians who suffered the same fate due to replica of Israel in the Gaza Strip. In the first phase of the agreement, according to Biden, the troops of Israel They withdraw from Palestinian territory to allow the release of a third of the kidnapped people in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. The question was whether Benjamin NetanyahuIsraeli Prime Minister, was going to accept it. He accepted it in the face of suspicion of having used the war against Hamas, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Syria and Iran as a safe passage from the judicial precipice for corruption charges.
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Jorge Elías is a prominent Argentine journalist specializing in international politics and international relations. He was a correspondent in the United States, Mexico and Canada, as well as has vast experience in investigations related to international politics. He is also a member of the Institute of International Politics of the National Academy of Moral and Political Sciences and a consulting member of the Argentine Council for International Relations (CARI).
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