Tag: Biden Administration
Senior US official: With ‘American blood on his hands,’ Sinwar’s ‘days are numbered’
Hamas senior leader Yahya Sinwar’s days “are numbered,” a senior Biden administration official said on Thursday, pledging that “justice will be served.”
Coinciding with a visit to the region by U.S. National Security Advisor Jake...
White House interns demand Biden call for ceasefire, end Israeli ‘apartheid’
More than 40 anonymous White House interns issued a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday demanding that the administration call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and support a...
US estimates Israel’s south Gaza campaign will end in January
The IDF offensive against Hamas in the southern Gaza Strip will likely end in January, the U.S. said overnight Tuesday.
Senior officials in the Biden administration told CNN that they expect the current phase of the war...
A fifth of right-wing Israelis back two states for US aid
Only one in five right-wing Israeli Jews backs a two-state solution in exchange for American war support, according to a survey the Israel Democracy Institute released on Tuesday.
In contrast, seventy-five percent of left-wing Israeli...
Israel ‘cannot claim self-defense,’ Abbas says
Israel is carrying out a "genocide" and "cannot claim the right to self-defense," Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas claimed in a statement issued on Wednesday, as a Biden administration official credited Ramallah for keeping...
White House: IDF op in southern Gaza must be ‘different’ than in north
The White House says it has made clear to the Israeli government that its military campaign in Gaza’s south must differ substantially from its operations in the strip’s north in the opening weeks of...
White House regrets exposing faces of Special Forces troops in Israel
The Biden administration received criticism following a social-media posting that sought to thank members of a U.S. Army Special Forces unit for “their bravery and the work they’re doing in response to the Hamas terrorist attacks”...
Week after Hamas attack, Biden administration ‘strongly’ supports two-state solution
The first question U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was asked during an Al-Arabiya interview in Cairo on Oct. 15 set a tone. The last question yielded a telling answer.
"Mr. Secretary. Well, actually, you have, well, a...
White House announces Civil Rights Act applies to forms of antisemitism
The Biden administration is touting what it regards as a “landmark” move in the implementation of its National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism.
“Eight federal agencies clarified—for the first time in writing—that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of...
‘Examiner’ report: State Department funds group with ties to terror in Gaza
The Phoenix Center for Research and Field Studies—affiliated with the Islamic University of Gaza and which received a $90,000 grant from the U.S. State Department—has ties to two entities designed by the United States...