Tag: Biden Administration
In Ramallah meeting, Blinken calls for Palestinian state
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed support for "tangible steps" towards the creation of a Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip during a meeting with Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas...
Biden promised Gaza aid wouldn’t go to Hamas. He lied.
A week after the horrors of Oct. 7, when the Biden administration first convinced Israel to open up the siege of Gaza and allow in international aid, it promised Hamas would not get it.
“If...
‘The US needs to let us win in our own way,’ mothers of IDF...
“The demands that the U.S. administration is putting on our soldiers go far beyond what the Americans practiced after 9/11 and Pearl Harbor,” Mirit Hoffman, an English-language spokeswoman for Mothers of Combat Soldiers (Imahot...
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”...