Before each presidential election, the American media watch for the “October surprise”: an unexpected event that would change the outcome of the vote which is traditionally held on the first Tuesday of November.
What if, this year, she came from the Middle East? For Gideon Rachman, columnist at Financial Times, it doesn’t make a crease: “Israel and Iran have just taken charge of ‘October surprise’, […] and Trump could be the beneficiary.”
The rain of Iranian missiles which fell on Israel, Tuesday 1is October, will perhaps lead to open conflict. Gold “the United States has already helped ward off Iran’s attack” and, in the event of an offensive by their Israeli ally, “it will be difficult for them to stay away”, estimates political analyst Dahlia Scheindlin in an article in the Israeli newspaper Ha’Aretz. However, if they allowed themselves to be drawn into a war, the risks would be great.
Thus, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, may well have succeeded in attracting a “trap” both the United States and Iran. For the Democratic administration in Washington, “Perhaps the greatest danger is political. In the event of a regional war, Joe Biden will not have
