Xi Jinping, the President of China, has reached the US for his first official tour in six years after President Joe Biden said that his aim in their bilateral dialogs this week was to restore regular talks with Beijing, including military-to-military ties. On Wednesday morning, United States time, Xi will meet his US counterpart near San Francisco ahead of the annual summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) grouping.

The summit of the 21-member organization will be their primary face-to-face meeting in a year. It will follow several months of high-level discussions to prepare the ground after tensions between the two nations mounted over concerns from trade to the Coronavirus pandemic and human rights. Before his departure, the US president intended to improve the bilateral relationship with China.

Xi started his first visit to the US six years after Biden said he intended to resume a normal relationship with China. His top diplomat forced the need for freedoms that the Biden administration says China is undermining in the Asia-Pacific region.#XiJinping #Biden #APEC2023 pic.twitter.com/LiSzUWwXuF

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Biden told reporters that the US is not trying to decouple from Beijing but trying to change the relationship for the better. The president added that he wanted to get back on an ordinary course of consistency, talking to one another if there’s a crisis and ensuring the militaries of both countries still have contact. Before walking down the steps to meet US officials, Xi waved from the door of his Air China aircraft. At the airport, United States Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen were there to receive their special guest from China.

In-Depth Communication

Xi is on his first visit to the United States since 2017 when he met then-US President Donald Trump. Beijing, which regularly communicated about red lines on matters such as Taiwan – the self-ruled island – which it claims as its own and its extensive claims in the South China Sea, has been more cautious about its prospects for the conference. When asked about the summit this week, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry mentioned only in-depth communication and key concerns about global peace.

Alicia Garcia Herrero of Natixis – the investment banking group – wrote in an analysis before the summit that the importance of a much-expected meeting between Xi and Biden in San Francisco can’t be discreet, no matter the possible insignificance of the outcomes.

Expected Protests on Xi’s Arrival

The Associated Press (AP) News agency reported that Biden and Xi will likely meet at Filoli Estate, a country house museum around forty kilometers south of San Francisco. The Chinese government and the White House have not confirmed the venue yet. While matters like the economy are likely to be high on the plan of the meeting, including moves to restrain the production of the solid synthetic opioid drug fentanyl, intensifying tensions are possibly to dominate talks.

John Kirby, the spokesman of the White House National Security, told reporters that both leaders would discuss the Hamas-Israel war in Gaza along with the Russia-Ukraine war. Moreover, Washington has wanted to reset relations with Beijing; it has also gestured that it will not be at the expense of crucial American concerns. Kirby said that the US president would be fearless to provoke where confrontation is needed on concerns where the US does not see eye to eye with Xi and the PRC.

US Rhetoric with China in Recent Years

On Tuesday, Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, told APEC ministers that Washington believed in a region where countries can choose their own route, where ideas, goods, and people flow freely and legally. The state secretary didn’t mention Beijing by name. Still, this gesture echoed American rhetoric during the last few years in which the White House blamed Beijing for harassing smaller economies in the Asia Pacific and trying to weaken the international order.

Hamas Blames Biden Government for Supporting Israel to Raid al-Shifa Hospital

Hamas said that Biden is entirely responsible for the Israeli assault on the largest hospital in Gaza. The Palestinian group released the statement on Wednesday, one day after the White House stated that American intelligence sources validated Israeli claims that Hamas has buried an operational center under the hospital. Hamas added that they hold the occupation and the US president is entirely responsible for the inhuman attack on the al-Shifa medical complex in Gaza. The statement further added that the adoption of the Pentagon and the White House of the occupation’s wrong claim that the fighting is using the medical complex for military ends has given the green signal to the occupation to commit further genocides against innocent Palestinians (civilians).

On Wednesday, the Israeli military said that they were executing a targeted and precise operation against the alleged Hamas command center beneath the hospital where hundreds of thousands are sheltering in a safe place. An official from the Hamas-run health ministry, Youssef Abdul Reesh, told the AFP news agency that he might see tanks inside the complex and several commandos and soldiers inside the emergency and reception buildings. After sharp warnings from Washington and others that al-Shifa Hospital must be safe, Israel said the raid was being carried out based on an operational need. Israel has repetitively claimed that the Palestinian group’s military use of the facility endangers its safe status under international law.

According to the health officials of the hospital, around six hundred and fifty patients remain in the hospital. Furthermore, another five thousand to seven thousand displaced civilians are trapped inside the al-Shifa hospital grounds and under constant attacks from Israeli drones and snippers. Spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told Al Jazeera Arabic that there are just patients, doctors, and displaced people inside the hospital.

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Joko Widodo, the President of Indonesia, has urged US President Joe Biden to make an exceptional effort to end innocent killings in Gaza and play his role in bringing a truce. Both leaders’ Monday meeting was dominated by the Hamas-Israel war in which the United States supported Israel with a large amount of military aid. Widodo attended a joint conference of Arab and Muslim leaders in Saudi Arabia at the weekend. The summit condemned Israel for its aggression against innocent civilians and called for a ceasefire.

Indonesia is the most densely inhabited Muslim country in the world and has witnessed large protests against Israeli aggression and in support of the Palestinians, as well as a boycott of businesses backing Israel. Biden and Widodo met in the Oval Office, and the Indonesian leader said that his country requests the United States to do more to end the atrocities in Palestine. A truce is necessary for the sake of humanity.

The Indonesian President has urged the US President to do more to stop atrocities in Gaza & make efforts to bring a truce. Both leaders talked about hot issues like the Hamas-Israel war in which the US has supported Israel with political and military aid.#GazaGenocide #Truce pic.twitter.com/q2jXixqV4z

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The war exploded on 7th October when Hamas initiated a surprise rocket attack on Israel, killing more than twelve hundred people, including civilians, and taking over two hundred captives. In a retaliated response, Israeli forces bombarded the Gaza Strip brutally to kill more than eleven thousand innocent civilians, including children and women, and slapped a complete blockade on Gaza.

Washington Thrown Full Support Behind Israel

American officials said that the US president is keen for Indonesia to play a vital role in the Middle East region, which might include the truce issue and enduring objectives such as a two-nation solution after the Israel-Palestine war and rebuilding Gaza. Instead, the US has given complete support to Israeli forces and recently called for more pauses and restraint in the battle that would allow the continuous delivery of humanitarian aid or the release of the captives in Gaza.

New Era of Bilateral Relations

The talks between Joko and Biden come before the meeting of Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart, besides a significant summit of leaders from Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, which will take place in San Francisco. Indonesia and China are both members of the organization. The Biden government intends to upgrade cooperation with the Joko administration to a so-called comprehensive strategic ally, the peak diplomatic level, as it extends ties in the Asia Pacific region. The US president revealed similar plans to upgrade partnerships with Vietnam on his official visit to Hanoi in September.

As he sat next to Joko, Biden said this meeting would mark a new era of ties between Indonesia and the US, affecting everything. The expanding Myanmar crisis was also a hot topic for discussion between the two leaders. In February 2021, Myanmar was plunged into chaos when its army seized power from the elected government of Aung Suu Kyi. The fight for a coup between the military and armed groups intensified in the past couple of weeks.

The United States and other major Western economies have slapped sanctions on the country. Still, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations has had little success in holding the military to account while banning top generals of Myanmar from its summits. Indonesia is the interim chair of the ten-member grouping that welcomed Myanmar as a member nation around twenty-five years ago, with Laos next to take the helm. The officials told Reuters it would be time for the organization to think about the future steps to combat the current unsustainable situation together.

Cybersecurity and Defense

Joko and Biden also talked about cooperation in defense, space, climate, and cybersecurity, as the US plans to announce moves with Indonesia on carbon capture and storage, improving air quality, and supporting the electricity grid. The Indonesian president said that his country is always open to cooperating with any nation globally and not taking the side of any power except to support humanity and peace.

Indonesia Boycott Starbucks and McDonald’s over Israel Support

The people of Indonesia started boycotting businesses such as McDonald’s, Burger King, and Starbucks in mid-October after McDonald’s Israel announced that it had shared thousands of free meals with the Israeli armed forces amid its war in Gaza. After the announcement, several Indonesian organizations, including the Islamic Defenders Front, Divestments and Sanctions Movement, and the United People Front, asked to boycott McDonald’s and other pro-Israel businesses.

On Sunday, tens of thousands of Indonesians, under the leadership of the former Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan and Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi, gathered in Jakarta at the National Monument to express unity with Palestinians and call for an immediate truce in Gaza. Amid the security concerns, many Starbucks and McDonald’s branches near the monument were temporarily closed that day.

The Indonesian Ulema Council issued a fatwa last week, making it haram to support Israeli aggression against Palestine or entities backing Israel, either directly or indirectly. However, how much the public supports the boycott still needs to be determined. Staff at the Medan McDonald’s branch told Al Jazeera that they had not been witnessing the routine lunchtime and evening meal rushes, and they supposed the boycott calls were to blame.

Similarly, a Starbucks branch at Focal Point Mall in Medan, where the workforce is usually too busy to serve customers, has been almost desolate recently. A worker told Al Jazeera that they have noticed it has been much more silent than usual, but they need clarification about why. It might be because of several factors, like the fact that they do not have any promotions running at the moment. He added that customers had yet to ask them about the boycott.

Anti-Palestinian Sentiment Surges Amid Bilateral US Support for Israel

Last week, the Gaza-Israel war dominated the 3rd GOP presidential debate, where contesting candidates were united in their support for Israel against Hamas. So, anti-Palestinian sentiment is on the rise in the US, with representatives from Democratic and Republican parties supporting the Israeli war in Gaza despite rising accusations of war crimes and Israeli forces killing innocent Palestinians.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis told the audience during the presidential debate that he is sick of hearing the media and other people blaming Israel just for defending itself. Such statements emerged throughout the two-hour debate from the candidates when discussing issues dissimilar to the crisis.

Aggression in Congress

At the third debate, Nikki Haley and DeSantis gave statements to push Israel to take decisive action against Hamas in Gaza. DeSantis said that finish the job once and for all with Hamas. Furthermore, Haley repeated the words two times: “Finish them” in response to a question about whether she would insist on a humanitarian pause during the Israeli aggression.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie followed his appearance in the debate with a visit to Israel on 12th November, where he likewise vetoed calls for ending the violence against innocent Palestinians. A bilateral delegation of United States Congress members, including the key representatives on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, also made a solidarity visit to Israel this past weekend.

Biden Sued for Involvement in Israeli Genocide in Gaza

A federal complaint was filed on Monday against President Biden, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and Secretary of State, accusing them of involvement in the Israeli government’s unfolding genocide against Palestinians and failure to stop the aggression. The Center for Constitutional Rights, the New York civil liberties group, filed the lawsuit on behalf of Palestinian human rights organizations, United States citizens with relatives in the besieged enclave, and Palestinians in Gaza, that has faced over a month of relentless bombardment by Israeli forces, which receives military aid from the Biden government.

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On Sunday, during an interview with Fox News, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott announced that he is suspending his 2024 presidential campaign. He added that he loves America more today than in May 2022. However, he will not be a presidential runner when he returns to Iowa. The Sunday night announcement surprised several of the senator’s supporters and donors.

Two sources near his presidential campaign said they didn’t receive advance notice about Scott’s decision. However, it was becoming increasingly clear that he faced a mounting struggle to break through in the Republican primary. The Political Action Committee backing Scott cancels fall Television ads in October as his campaign struggles to gain traction. Moreover, following the third Republican presidential debate last week, they decided not to make a new investment in his campaign.

GOP presidential nominee Tim Scott surprisingly announced he withdrew his name from the 2024 race, which stunned his campaign staff and donors. The Carolina senator’s looming departure comes as he and the rest of the Republican field have struggled in a contest dominated by Trump pic.twitter.com/fNW7eW5u3Z

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Over the last few weeks, the Carolina senator’s chances have fainted, starting with the committee’s decision to suspend its ads. In October, the Scott campaign said it was going overall on Iowa state to gain on his major challengers by targeting the primary nominating race on the Republican calendar. People associated with Scott’s campaign said that he kept the decision to end the race, but the timing to announce his withdrawal was more surprising than the announcement itself.

Will Scott Returns to the Senate?

Scott’s team had been worried about succeeding in the fourth GOP debate in December after being the last contender to meet the donor and voting thresholds to make last week’s debate. The senator hoped a solid debate performance would push start his contention, but even though he approved to advisers and partners, that had not happened.

Persons close to his campaign said that by quitting the race now, Scott can return to the Senate without a humiliating finish in Iowa. The senator preserves the chance of a future presidential candidacy – and leaves without getting in the crosshairs of former GOP President Donald Trump, should he become the candidate.

A Republican official who backed Scott told CNN that the South Carolina senator ran a hopeful message – but that is not where the GOP base is right now. On the other hand, Scott told Trey Gowdy of Fox News that he would not support another GOP nominee, saying he believes the best way for him to be helpful is to refuse to back in the primary debate. The senator also said he has no plans of announcing a vice presidential candidacy, reiterating a position he usually repeated on the campaign trail.

He said that he ran for president to be president and added that he was called to run, not called to win, but indeed called to run. Furthermore, Scott said being vice president has never been on his to-do list for this campaign, and it’s undoubtedly not there now.

Countering Democratic Arguments on Several Issues

Andy Sabin, the major Scott donor, and metal, told CNN that after listening to the announcement, he’s disappointed but not surprised. The senator plans to support former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley in the Republican primary. In May, Scott launched his GOP presidential campaign, hoping to bring a positive message to a GOP field dominated by statistics such as that of former president and Florida Governor DeSantis, who depicted the US as declining.

He made his personal story a dominant narrative of his presidential campaign, usually speaking about mounting up in poverty in his state, being raised by a single mother, and using those experiences to counter arguments from Democratic leaders on a massive range of issues, from economic policy to education to criminal justice. At campaign events, he usually said that the truth of his life disrupts their lies.

After converting his Senate campaign account into a presidential fund, Scott entered the contest with a significant cash advantage. It gave him a $21 million head begin on fundraising and let him overflow the airwaves with primary advertising in New Hampshire and Iowa. The senator’s television spots became so omnipresent in initial states that by the summer, audience fellows at campaign events could estimate lines from his political ads back to him.

His campaign officials usually advertised his war chest to clarify the way to the nomination, arguing they would have the funds to stay in the race through his state’s primary while other contenders would face pressure to leave. The Scott campaign felt pressure in the fall after Trust in the Mission Political action committee, the super PAC supporting the White House bid of the senator, cut the leftovers of its $ 40 million television ad reservation, mentioning hardships with breaking through to GOP voters.

Black Families Survived Slavery – Scott

The South Carolina senator twisted his campaign strategy to significantly focus on Iowa state, shifting television ad reservations and staff into the state and explicitly increasing his visits. A more aggressive oratorical approach accompanied the focus on Iowa, with the senator increasingly criticizing Democratic President Joe Biden and GOP rivals such as entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, DeSantis, and Haley, a noteworthy departure from an initial more pleasant approach to campaigning.

Scott often leaned into talks about the contest to lift his fundraising and court voters. He quoted his own experience to propose that American struggles with racism were mainly in the past. At the California GOP primary (second) debate, the senator grasped headlines when he drew in stark terms his belief that the nation has surpassed the history of slavery and the exclusion of the Jim Crow era while also criticizing anti-poverty agendas created in the 1960s.

During the debate, Scott said that Black families in the country survived slavery, literacy tests, and poll taxes and survived discernment being woven into the laws of the US. He added that what was tough to survive was former President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, where they planned to take the Black father out of the household to get a check in the mail, and now one can measure that in destruction, crime, and redundancy.

Caroline Political Career

Carolina’s senator exit from the Republican presidential race marks the latest move in a political career that started in 1995 when he became victorious in a special election for the Charleston County Council. He stayed there for more than ten years before his election to the South Carolina House in 2008. After one term as a senator, he won a House seat representing South Carolina’s first Congressional District.

In 2023, Scott joined the United States Senate after Haley employed him to fill a post left by Republican Jim DeMint’s retirement. Scott regained the seat in a 2014 special election, was reelected to an entire tenure in 2016, and won another in 2022. Scott has expressed more sincerity than most GOPs in working with Democratic leaders in Washington – he has led bilateral policing overhaul dialogs along with Democratic New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, which finally collapsed.

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Senior US government officials said United States President Joe Biden will meet his Chinese counterpart next Wednesday in the San Francisco Bay Area. The anticipated meeting will test whether both leaders can slow a downward spiral in relations during heavy turbulence worldwide. The dialogue will not likely produce a significant thaw in the most consequential bilateral relationship between two world superpowers.

However, after months of coldness, the White House allies view the forthcoming meeting as a sign of positivity. United States officials stated that the two men hoped to develop a framework for managing effective relationships between countries, explaining misperceptions and avoiding surprises. However, the officials expressed that the US allies were attending the summit with realistic explanations and did not expect a long list of consequences later. Experiencing a surging clash in the Middle East and a relentless war in Ukraine, the US leader is seeking to prevent another crisis globally from exploding. Biden’s top agenda of foreign policies is to restore the Washington-Beijing relationship, even as international tensions sparked.

Issues to be discussed on the Dialogue Table

The list of issues to discuss during the meeting should be shorter. Both presidents will discuss restoring military-to-military conversation between both nations, a major intention for the US president, who plans to force the Chinese leader on issues. The wars between Hamas and Israel and Ukraine and Russia are also on the agenda table, along with issues such as countering narcotics trafficking and climate change. The meeting agenda also includes the military escalation in the South China Sea and across Taiwan and deep disagreements over human rights issues.

US officials expected Beijing to officially announce Xi’s participation on Friday morning. Furthermore, the American officials said the dialogues would be comprehensive and spread over several working sessions. Despite profound and seemingly warm personal ties as vice presidents, Xi and Biden have supervised worsening Washington-Beijing relations to the lowest level in decades.

Meeting Between US and Chinese Officials

Wang Yi, the Foreign Minister of China, visited Washington in October and met with President Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen invited Chinese Vice President He Lifeng for a two-day meeting starting Thursday. Moreover, a senior Beijing official said this week that Beijing is ready to improve relations with Washington.

During a Bloomberg forum in Singapore, Chinese Vice President Han Zheng said the latest high-level meetings have sent out optimistic gestures and upturned global community expectations on improving Washington-Beijing relations. Han added that China is ready to build up communication and talks with Washington at all levels, promote bilateral beneficial cooperation, jointly address international changes, and properly manage differences.

Brief History of Meeting Between Both Countries’ Leaders

In 1972, when then-President Richard Nixon visited China, intending to calm the tensions that lasted for decades, he took a fresh pair of shoes with rubber soles to climb the wall. Former President Obama and Xi did not wear ties when they met in 2013 at Sunnylands, a sumptuous, modernist mansion in Rancho Mirage, a suburb near Palm Springs, California. During that time, it was news that Obama slept there while the Chinese delegation rested in a separate hotel.

Four years later, Donald Trump donned a dark suit for dinner at Mar-a-Lago with Xi, and a chocolate cake was dubbed “the most beautiful piece.” For the coming meeting, it is believed that Xi’s team insisted on the venue being outside the APEC site and for the talks to last longer than they did in Bali. She said, “China wants a separate summit.”

In this context, the Chinese are careful about where, more like Sunnylands than Anchorage, the site of tense 2021 talks between top US and Chinese officials. State Chinese media might use weather as an indicator of bilateral relationships. Preliminary predictions indicate drizzle and a peak of around 60 degrees in San Francisco, California.

Such considerations included off-site and on-site flowers since some options represented harmony as implied in Chinese culture. The plum blossom is a famous Chinese flower that symbolizes resilience despite adversity, and loti communicates tranquility. In contrast, chrysanthemums denote death. As it is, he may expect Biden to greet him upon arrival. Also, his team would want him and Biden to be photographed together without the staff, perhaps to create an impression of personal ties.

Short Walk Together

As stated by Ryan Hass, the head of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institute, Chinese officials want to portray to their domestic people that Biden treats Xi with honor and respect. This will require imagery with both the leader shaking hands in front. According to Hass, it can even be a short walk together. The Chinese also put stress on food and might insist on a meal.

As This is an essential aspect for the Chinese, this time, they may be referring more to Sunny Lands than Anchorage, where 2021’s top US and Chinese talks were quite challenging. Chinese state media would focus on the weather as an indicator of mutual relations between the two states—rain forecast for San Francisco today with a mid-60s high.

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Five GOP leaders seeking the party presidential nominee ignored the abortion rights issue for the first ninety-nine minutes of their third presidential debate in Miami. One day before, voters in several states criticized Republicans who would oppose abortion rights. Unlike the second debate, a chaotic hike of interruptions and cross-talk, the Wednesday night debate did hammer away at stages of substance. Most of the agenda discussed in the third debate was foreign policy.

If the presidential candidates mainly settled on top issues like backing Israel and opposing China, Iran, and Hamas. If the Republicans are going to take over the White House, they should discuss the political hurdles standing in their way. None of their opinions on abortion, which came out twenty minutes before ending time, are specifically popular right now. Nikki Haley, the Former South Carolina Governor’s request for accord on the matter, and Tim Scott, the South Carolina Senator’s persistence on a fifteen-week state ban, boomed the logic set forth by Glenns Youngkin, the Virginia Governor weeks before his state Republican leaders came up short in a high-stakes legislative fight.

Protestors in Tacoma, Washington state, gathered to block the plentiful supply of US military aid to Israel. Similar protests were also recorded in California to stop the assistance to the Israeli military for its ongoing campaign against the Gaza Strip.#IsraelPalestineWar #Gaza pic.twitter.com/IeHBYz7PJG

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Gaza War Between Israel and Hamas

All candidates also clashed in the latest debate over many other issues, including immigration, the war in Gaza, and their tough contest to win the nomination against former US Republican President Donald Trump. Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former envoy to the UN Nikki Haley, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Senator Tim Scott, and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie took the stage for the third GOP presidential contest in Miami on Wednesday.

Former Vice President Mike Pence announced suspending his presidential campaign in the second debate in September. On the other hand, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum needed to qualify for the debate. The former GOP president once again decided to skip the contest as he remains prime Republican candidate despite his rising legal complications. The Gaza war between Israel and Hamas and its national and international implications dominated the initial part of the debate.

Ramaswamy and Haley depended on their contention and criticized each other throughout the evening. Furthermore, Scott delivered a more emphatic performance, claiming additional speaking time. DeSantis, the most critical threat to the former president’s grip on the GOP nomination, endorsed his conservative record in Miami and denounced the current policies of Democratic President Joe Biden. Let’s discuss some of the key takeaways from the debate.

Pro-Israel Stances

Despite Biden’s firm support for Israel, including pressing for over $14 billion in further assistance to the country, GOP nominees aimed to surpass the Democratic president in supporting the United States ally. DeSantis stated that he would tell the Israeli leader Netanyahu to complete the task one time by eliminating Hamas. He said that Hamas commandos are terrorists and they are killing innocent people. They would eradicate every Jew from the world if they could.

Haley echoed DeSantis’s remarks, saying she would also tell the Israeli Prime Minister to finish Hamas. She said that it is not that Israel needs the United States. Instead, America needs Israel. They are the tip of the spike when it comes to terrorism, and they need to ensure that they have their support in that process. Similarly, Ramaswamy also expressed assistance for Israel, but he distinguished himself from the others of the package by threatening against American military involvement in the war.

He said that he wants to be careful to avoid repeating the mistakes of the country’s leaders from the past. Furthermore, he added that corrupt politicians in the GOP and Democratic parties spent trillions of dollars to kill millions and made billions of dollars for themselves in countries like Afghanistan and Iran – fighting battles that sent a lot of US sons and daughters, people of his age, to die in wars that didn’t advance anybody’s interests. None of the five contestants mentioned Palestine or Palestinians when combating the crisis.

Aggressive policies on Iran

Republican presidential candidates also demonstrated hawkishness towards Iran, and American soldiers faced attacks from Iran-associated groups in Syria and Iraq amid the Gaza war. Scott seemed to call for a direct demonstration of force against Tehran. He said, referring to a United States attack on an Iranian-associated weapons storage facility in Syria, that you can’t just continue to have seizures in Syria on warehouses.

Moreover, he said that you need to smack the head of the snake, and Iran is the head of the snake, not simply the delegation. Haley announced that she would take more aggressive action against Iran and its allies. DeSantis also threatened Iran when it came to attacking American troops in the Middle East. He said that he would say to Tehran if it would harm a single hair of an American soldier, they would have to pay for it.

The Chasm Over Ukraine Continues

As in the last two debates, the nominees were split over military assistance to Ukraine, with Ramaswamy opposing further aid to Kyiv; in response, other candidates criticized him. Ramaswamy blamed Ukraine for failing to be a democratic country, mentioning the alliance of TV channels into one state-run news outlet and ambiguity over the 2024 election. The entrepreneur described Volodymyr Zelensky as a comedian in cargo pants.

The Biden government has provided Ukrainian forces with tens of billions of dollars to repel the Russian invasion that it launched in February of last year. Haley linked the Russia-Ukraine war to the Israel-Gaza war. She said that Ukrainians want the US to support Israelis because they know that Tehran’s victory is a Russian victory.

In addition, DeSantis denounced the president’s call for additional aid to Ukraine, asking for further resources to be dedicated to the competition with Beijing in the Asia-Pacific region. He added that the US needs to end the Russia-Ukraine clash. European countries need to set up and do their fair contribution.

Intensifying Competition with China

Because of the mounting Washington contest with Beijing, the GOP nominees seemed to be in a deal over prioritizing the US-China conflict. Christie called Beijing the enemy and said that he would strengthen the United States nuclear submarine arsenal to defy China in case it decides to attack Taiwan. He said that the nuclear submarines in the US Navy are the biggest threat to the Beijing aggression, and he will intensify the US naval power.

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Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protestors gathered at the Port of Tacoma in Washington to block a United States military supply ship allegedly carrying weapons for the Israeli military. The demonstrators fear that the vessel may carry weaponry on board that will be used in the Israeli ongoing deadly campaign against the innocent civilians of Gaza, where more than ten thousand Palestinians have been killed.

One of the protestors at the rally, Wassim Hage, said that they wanted a truce instantly and wanted to stop the genocide of Palestinians. The crowd wants a real examination and action on United States foreign policy and American funding to Israel. Hage serves as a community outreach coordinator and case manager with the Arab Resource and Organizing Center. AROC advocacy group organized the protest against the brutal killings.

Protestors in Tacoma, Washington state, gathered to block the plentiful supply of US military aid to Israel. Similar protests were also recorded in California to stop the assistance to the Israeli military for its ongoing campaign against the Gaza Strip.#IsraelPalestineWar #Gaza pic.twitter.com/IeHBYz7PJG

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Another Protest for Cargo Ship Carrying Aid

Protestors of all ages in puffer jackets, raincoats, and umbrellas gathered in Tacoma to protest against the ship – the Cape Orlando. The demonstrators waved the Palestinian flag and carried sign boards with slogans “Defend Gaza,” “Free Palestine,” and “Not another nickel, not another dime, no further aid for Israeli crimes.” Protestors used cars and bicycles, with their hazard lights flashing, to block traffic across the port. Seven Indigenous combatants in a traditional canoe also surrounded the waters neighboring to block the ship.

Patricia Gonzalez said that she was stirred to take to the sea because she relates to the violent and displaced history of Palestine. Gonzalez from the Water Warrior Council of the Puyallup Tribe explained that her ancestors were forced to attend institutions designed to extinguish native cultures, such as Indigenous boarding schools. Pope Francis and the Canadian administration have called the schools instruments of cultural genocide. She added that her community is still struggling with the intergenerational trauma of that history.

Anti-Zionist and Jewish Abby Brook helped the organization organize Monday’s protest. Her visits to the Golan Heights, occupied territories in the West Bank, and Israel inspired her activism. She said, using the term for the displacements of Palestinians in 1948, that when she was eighteen, she went to Palestine, and she saw the realities of the occupation and settler colonization on the ground. She saw the checkpoints and communicated with people about their experience of being displaced in the Nakba.

Minor Protest

Three protestors fastened themselves to the vessel’s ladder last Friday when the Cape Orlando was docked in Oakland, California, and delayed its departure for several hours. The United States Coast Guard stated that it finally removed the protestors after they allegedly invaded the vessel. At present, they are under probe for likely violations of federal law. On the other hand, some other protestors had broken the fence covering the dock that the Cape Orlando was tied to. They accused some of interfering with mooring lines.

Hage expressed that the uproar against the Cape Orlando and its alleged cargo-carrying military aid sends a strong message to US President Joe Biden. The president is currently campaigning for the second term in the White House. He said that they are seeing some of the biggest anti-war demonstrations since the former President George W Bush years happening right now, and this before a very combating election. Hage referred to the presidency that directed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

United States Military Aid to Israel

Recently, Biden asked Congress to provide over $14 billion in aid to Israel, which is additional to the $3.8 billion the United States promised to provide for 2023. The United States has been the biggest supplier of military support to Israel since its founding in 1948, as it funds around sixteen percent of the total defense budget of Israel.

Following the 7 October Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel, the US president announced his intention to send further military aid, including interceptors, to refill the Iron Dome and ammunition. According to a research analyst with the Conventional Defense Program at Stimson Center, Elias Yousif, it is tough to validate what weapons the United States deployed to Israel. He highlighted a lack of transparency on the part of the Biden government.

Yousif said that the US had made some official statements that detail what they transferred to Israel to help them in the war against Hamas. Unlike the Ukraine war, where the US has these nice fact sheets that the State Department produces, there is no likely platform for the US to go and look at weapons transfer to Israel. According to him, there is a very high possibility that United States weapons are being used in Gaza. He assured that Israeli forces used the American weapons in the intensive fighting in Gaza.

Oversight Lack from US Lawmakers

The Washington director for the nonprofit Human Rights Watch, Sarah Yager, said that her group is pushing US representatives to give oversight for military aid to Israel. At the moment, the major responsibility of Congress is to oversee weapons sales. So, if they are not inquiring about where these weapons are going and how they are being used, they are not fulfilling their responsibilities.

Human Rights Watch (an international non-governmental organization) has called on nations like the United States to stop the transfer of weapons to Palestinian armed groups and Israel alike, given the real threat that they will be used to commit grave aggression. The organization criticized Hamas for targeting Israeli civilians in the 7 October attacks. Likewise, it denounced Israel for imposing mutual punishment on the Palestinians by firing bombs on thickly populated territories and cutting off crucial supplies like medicine, water, and food.

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Five GOP 2024 GOP contenders will participate in the third debate on Wednesday in Florida. Like other events, former President Donald Trump will not attend the event. Yet the field of nominees live for the 3^rd presidential debate will be the smallest. According to the GOP National Committee, the debate will happen at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County.

The Qualification Criteria for the Third Debate

The qualification criteria for the third Republican debate, runners required at least four percent support in two national ballots or four percent in one national poll along with two polls from four of the primary voting states – South Carolina, Iowa, Nevada, and New Hampshire. Furthermore, the Republican National Committee must approve the polls used for the qualification.

The White House candidates also required at least seventy thousand unique donors, with at least two hundred coming from twenty states or territories. In the same way, they had to sign an RNC oath vowing to back the Republican eventual nominee. The mounting qualification indicators have become progressively challenging for hopefuls to satisfy. Former Vice President Mike Pence withdrew his candidacy last month, evading the disgrace of failing to qualify.

They are Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley. North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum and former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson will be missing from the third debate, while they qualified for the second and first debates, respectively. RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a press conference that they anticipate the third debate in Miami.

From the five Republican Presidential nominees who have made the Miami stage, the chances are prominent for DeSantis and Haley. In recent polling, Haley has not received a massive burst of support because of previous debate performances. Haley campaign manager Betsy Ankney argues that the ex-governor is increasingly the top Trump rival in three of the four early primary states. DeSantis struggled to maintain his early positioning as the primary GOP alternative to Trump. His performance in the initial two debates was undemonstrative.

The Debate Would Decentralize into a Slugfest

Trump will headline a South Florida demonstration as counterprogramming to the Republican debate. His team argued that there should be fewer debates this time. Some days before the debate, Scott would hardly beat the threshold to make the stage. In a memo before the Republican National Committee confirming the lineup, Jennifer DeCasper, the Scott campaign manager, forecasted that the debate would decentralize into a slugfest between DeSantis and Haley.

DeCasper wrote that she would attack him for failing the nominee that he is. He will attack her for being the moderate that she is. She argued that Scott was the runner Democrats concerned most because the left wing knew a Scott-led ticket would marshal in a red wave that would not just flip the White House but also carry the Senate and House.

The Miami Republican debate will air at 08:00 pm ET on NBC News and will be livestreamed on Rumble. Other debate allies include the GOP Jewish Coalition and Salem Radio Network.

In a press release, McDaniel said that they are particularly honored to be the primary political party in the country to ally with a Jewish organization for a debate in their partnership with the GOP Jewish Coalition, and their contenders will endorse the GOP’s firm support of the Jewish Community and Israel on the stage Wednesday night. The fourth and final GOP debate has been scheduled for 6 December in Alabama, with higher polling and donor thresholds for the nominees to make the stage.

Five Republican Presidential Candidates Who Will Attend the Third Debate

The five qualified GOP presidential candidates attending the third debate in Miami are listed below.

Vivek Ramaswamy

Ramaswamy, 38, started a company in 2022 to force organizations to abandon social, environmental, and corporate governance initiatives. The political outsider has stirred up proletarian grassroots gossip as a likely alternative to the former president. Ramaswamy is a sincere ally of Trump and says that if he won the Presidency, he would pardon Trump.

Tim Scott

The only Black GOP United States senator has low name appreciation outside his home state of South Carolina, but his assurance and emphasis on uniting his split party have helped him draw a difference with a more violent approach from DeSantis and the former president. However, the supporters of Scotts acknowledged that while his sunny conduct is a selling point, it might not be enough to triumph. According to Ipsos/Reuters polling conducted from 8 September through 14 September, Scott gained two percent support among GOPs.

Nikki Haley

Haley, the former Trump ambassador to the US, has stressed her relative youth compared to significant candidates of the Democratic and Republican parties. She is the daughter of Indian immigrants. She gained a reputation in the GOP Party as a solidly conservative member who can combat issues of race and gender more credibly than several others in the party. According to opinion polls, Haley has low single-digit support among Republicans.

Chris Christie

Sixty-one-year-old Christie, the former New Jersey Governor, was Trump’s former campaign adviser, but he opposed the 6 January attacks after the incident and became a vocal critic of the former president criticized him critically as he faced a mounting number of criminal charges. The federal prosecutor has received around two percent support among GOPs in the Ipsos/Reuters poll conducted from 8 September through 14 September.

Ron DeSantis

In May, DeSantis launched his Republican Presidential Candidate campaign on the social media platform X; he backed the former president on several vital issues, including abortion. However, his GOP presidential campaign has faced difficulties in gaining a grip. His top donor has said he will not give DeSantis more funding unless he adopts a more moderate approach.

The Latest Failure of US Governance

The US House’s difficulties in deploying $14 billion in emergency aid to Israel are revealing political gaps that leave the country looking like a split superpower unable to rush help to the allied country that believes it is fighting an existential fight. On Thursday, House Republicans said that they decided to hold a vote on the package. Still, such is the ambiguity in the Republican’s chaotic majority that no timetable is specific. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and House Republican Whip Tom Emmer said they expect to approve the package later in the day.

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Latest polling from the Siena College and The New York Times reveals that Donald Trump, the former Republican US President leads Democratic President Joe Biden in a series of theoretical matchups in four key swing states. In Arizona, the former president leads Biden with forty-nine percent to Biden’s forty-four percent. Likewise, in Nevada, Trump gained fifty-two percent support to his rival forty-one percent. Trump tops Biden in Michigan with a five-point lead from 48% to 43%. Similarly, in Georgia, Trump is ahead of Biden with 49% to 43%.

Each vote has a margin of sampling error between 4.4 to 4.8 points, while the head-to-head matchup remains hypothetical – the key ballot doesn’t start until 2024. With the heavy support among voters, Donald Trump remains the GOP front-runner of the presidential candidate. On the other hand, Biden is heavily favored for the Democratic Presidential nomination but faced a key challenge from Representative Dean Phillips of Minnesota last month.

The recent combat zone state ballot emphasizes the significant challenges facing the Democratic nominee’s reelection bid, including questions about his old age to lead the country and low job approval ratings. The ballot results are especially striking for President Biden, given Donald Trump’s growing legal difficulties. Across four indictments, Trump faces ninety-one criminal charges. However, he has pleaded not guilty to all those allegations.

Biden Campaign Opinion on the Poll Results

On Sunday, Kevin Munoz, the spokesperson of the Biden campaign, told CNN that estimates over a year out tend to look a little different one year later. He said that coming of 2022 historic midterms, Biden’s reelection campaign is brutal at work reaching and assembling Democratic diversity, gaining a coalition of voters one year out on the option between popular agenda, Democratic winning, and MAGA GOPs’ infamous extremism. Munoz said that they will win next year’s presidential election by putting their heads down and focusing on the work, not by worrying about the ballot.

Furthermore, the recent polling is closer in two other swing states of the United States. Trump is at 48 percent to Biden’s 44 percent in Pennsylvania. It is a state where Trump won in the 2016 presidential elections, but Biden recaptured it in the 2020 elections. Former Biden supporter Spencer Weiss said the world is falling apart under Biden. He added that he would much rather see someone he feels can be an optimistic role model leader for the United States. However, he thinks the former president has his brains about him.

Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, President Biden leads forty-seven percent to Trump’s forty-five percent. With around one year before the general election of 2024, these results (conducted from 22 October to 3 November) capture just a single snapshot of the voters as it currently stands. However, they demonstrate an extensive sense of discontent. Around these six swing states, registered voters give the Democratic president low job approval marks; thirty-eight percent approve, with only nineteen percent describing the economy as good or excellent. Simultaneously, just forty-two percent in these above states rate former president favorably, just like Biden’s forty-one percent favorability rating.

Trump Gains Edge over Biden

Voters from these states give the former president the edge in trust over President Biden to combat issues like the economy, national security, immigration, and the most mounting Israeli-Palestinian clash, but trust the president more on abortion, with a close division on handling democracy. Previously, CNN reported that President Biden is just as low in the internal polls of the White House as in any of the public ones. Still, his campaign advisers remain assured he is the best option for Democrats next year.

The report said that the 2024 general election will be decided on thin margins – and that if the president loses to the former republican president, the United States will never be the same. While Donald Trump is combating several legal challenges related to his efforts to reverse the 2020 presidential election, his business conduct, and his mishandling of classified documents, his Republican support has not weakened. Trump has opposed attending all the GOP primary debates to date. However, he stressed to focus on attacking his Democratic rival’s record.

Donald Trump Heads to the Witness Stand

Trump is set to testify before the judge in a civil fraud trial. As we discussed above, he faced over ninety other criminal charges, setting up the chance that a convicted illegal would top the GOP ticket next year. However, Biden’s political scenarios are plummeting. Moreover, on Monday, the former president will likely be called to the witness stand in New York. Usually, it is a typical activity during a post-presidency.

If the Siena College/New York Times survey is borne out in 2024, there will be no polling path to victory for the president. Trump is vowing for a second term of revenge – could succeed in a White House comeback despite igniting a Capitol riot with his untrue claims of electoral fraud in 2020. On Sunday, Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut told CNN that he was concerned before these ballots. He added that from the last couple of terms, the presidential races have been very tight and have taken a lot of resources, hard work, and resources.

Biden’s Position for the Democratic Nominee is Declining

The corresponding crises facing both Biden and Trump disprove that, for all their deficits, neither has yet faced a critical challenger from within their parties as they seek the nominee. The position of President Biden is waning as he challenges surging international risks such as the war between Israel and Gaza, sheds support on economy handling, and perceives cracks in the interracial coalition that initially elected him.

In addition, it echoes a country that is unsatisfied and divided and groping for the indefinable ordinariness that Biden vowed three years ago after the Coronavirus pandemic and the historic instability of the Trump government. The poll will also recommence whether the president is right to emphasize running again, while some Democratic representatives argue the time to unite around a different contender may have already been approved.

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On Friday, Representative Rashida Tlaib, the Democrat from Michigan, accused United States President Joe Biden of backing Palestinian genocide and signaled that the American people will remember when he approached them for the 2024 reelection how he responded to the Israel-Hamas war. On the social media platform X, she pressed the president in a video message to call for a truce in the war. On the other hand, Biden and his administration didn’t respond positively to the conflict and aided Israel in its aggressive attacks on innocent Palestinian civilians.

Tlaib said the Americans are not with Biden on this particular issue and his government’s response. They all remember during the upcoming presidential election. Further, her video features images of the protest against Israelis with chants of “Free Palestine” and contains dead bodies of civilians, including children and women. She added by urging the president for a ceasefire or not counting her in 2024.

On Friday, Rep. Rashida Tlaib from Michigan accused Biden of supporting a Palestine genocide and said that the Americans will remember him during the next presidential elections in how he reacted to the Israel-Hamas war.#GazaBleedingWorldSleeping #Gaza_Genocide #RashidaTlaib pic.twitter.com/bfmd2neVr8

— News Live (@NewsLiveFree) November 4, 2023

Tlaib Didn’t Condemn Hamas Attacks on Israel

Since her election in 2018, Tlaib has been the bluntest critic of Israeli aggression in Congress. However, during these days after the deadly Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, she shook her colleagues to establish a united front amid the Hamas-Israel war as divisions have grown more personal. Instead, she didn’t directly condemn the Palestinian Jihadi group Hamas in her statement the day after it launched a surprise attack on Israel on 7th October, killing more than fourteen hundred people and taking several hostages.

He stated after the attacks that, she mourned the Israeli and Palestinian lives lost yesterday, today, and every day. Tlaib added that she is as determined as ever to fight for a just future where everybody can live in peace, without terror, and with complete freedom, human dignity, and equal rights. Furthermore, she said that the way to that peaceful future must include removing the blockade and undoing the apartheid system that produces overpowering that can lead to resistance.

The Genocide Convention, the human rights treaty adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations after World War II, defines genocide as acts committed to destroy an ethical, racial, national, or religious group. Previously, the US president said that the killings were being exposed in Ukraine as Russian forces continued their attacks termed as genocide. However, that announcement last year did not initiate any instant changes to the national policy of America toward the fight.

Biden Resisted Calls for Ceasefire

The US president has opposed calls for a truce in Gaza, even in the United Nations. But he backed so-called humanitarian pauses to allow for the release of hostages held in Palestine. Biden said that Israel has the right and responsibility to defend its citizens and land against attacks. Neither he nor anybody in his government has criticized how Israel is conducting its brutal attacks against innocent Palestinians. Recently, the congresswoman faced a Republican-led resolution to censure her over remarks critical of Israel and in favor of Palestinians.

Ultimately, the House tabled the resolution, introduced by Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. However, it cited a demonstration on 18th October in the dome of the Cannon House office building where human rights activists called for a truce in the Hamas-Israel war. Protestors are not allowed inside a congressional office building. A source told CNN that the congresswoman was absent from the protest in the Cannon building. However, Tlaib spoke at a rally supporting a truce that took place outside of the Capitol on the same day.

Failed Drama of American Governance

The House’s effort to deploy $14 billion in emergency support to Israel is revealing political rifts that leave the country looking like a divided superpower, unable even to rush help to a friend that has faith that it’s fighting an existential war. House Republicans said they would hold a ballot on the aid package on Thursday, but such is the doubt in the chaotic majority of the party that no timetable is ever certain.

In addition, the political divisions of the US and fractured foreign policy consensus are gradually frightening to paralyze governance and impede international American goals. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and House Republican Whip Tom Emmer said that they expect to approve the aid bill later in the day. The political US history reveals that a vote on aid to Israel might have been one of the slightest debated moves to come up in the House.

Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson decided to send $14.3 billion in military aid to the Israeli military with an equal amount of cuts from the budget of the IRS. Conservative members are supporting the move, but several Democrats announced to vote against what they see as a political stunt. On Thursday, the Republican Speaker defended his decision to link Israel support to cuts in Internal Revenue Service funding. The speakers told reporters that he attached it because they are trying to get back to the principle of financial responsibility there.

Johnson Faced Unpalatable Choices

House Speaker Johnson’s strategy demonstrates how an extreme right-wing Republican conference is ready to play hardline legislation even on matters that have a critical international impact. His plans to include Internal Revenue Service offsets also clarify that, like exiled Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the Louisiana GOP can’t guarantee a functioning Republican majority without making concerns to its most hardline members.

However, these actions are likely only sometimes accepted by the Senate or House, so they are eventually useless. For example, President Biden has already pledged to veto the current House bill if it ever reaches him. Newly elected Johnson is going ahead – previously raising the chance that he was being led by extreme elements of Republicans rather than the other way around. Johnson could fortify if he can steer the bill into law without additional delays. While his Internal Revenue Service maneuver could win sufficient Republican votes to approve the bill, it won’t change the reality of shared government in Washington. Later or sooner, he must produce a move to win backing in the Senate and White House.

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will be going to create history as he is going to visit China on Saturday and will become the first Australian PM to visit the country in seven years. The high-profile visit will end the breach between the two countries’ relations after several sensitive disputes, including a string of Chinese sanctions on Australian goods and allegations of foreign interference.

Experts say that now both countries have refreshed goals and ambitions and paved the way for the visit with positive signs. In October, Beijing gave a surprise announcement to release Chinese-Australian journalist Cheng Lei, who was imprisoned for more than three years on national security charges. China said that it will revise its tariffs on Australian exports.

Australian Prime Minister announced to visit China tomorrow to meet Xi; he will be the first Australian PM to visit Beijing in seven years. Both leaders will meet to discuss several issues, including trade, & will dialog to rebuild both countries’ ties & renew ambitions & goals. pic.twitter.com/xSOK0erd46

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On the other side, the Australian government also delayed action it had taken against Beijing at the World Trade Organization. It greenlit the Beijing lease of a key port in Darwin. However, analysts said the structural disputes pursued have stayed the same as both nations compete for influence in the Pacific Islands region. Australia also updated its defense policies to combat Chinese military build-up.

Elena Collision, Manager at the Australia-China Institute, said Chinese officials have expressed a wish to build relations between both countries by taking some positive decisions. However, this signifies the peak of stabilization for Australia, and it is nearly as good as Australia wants the ties to get at this point.

Mutual Benefit of Both Countries

Albanese tomorrow’s visit marks fifty years since former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam visited Beijing following the foundation of official diplomatic relations. From the beginning, Whitlam has built links on mutual benefits. Beijing’s transformation into an economic superpower produced massive demand for Australian exports like cola, gas, and iron core. So, it helped weather international recessions in Australia while setting the groundwork for decades of continuous growth.

Furthermore, it led to cross-cultural solid exchanges, with around 5.5 percent of the Australian population having Chinese ancestry. In 2018, their relationship began to plummet when the Australian former administration banned Huawei, the Chinese tech giant, from rolling out a 5G network in the country, citing security concerns.

Last year, Xiao Qian, the Chinese ambassador to Australia, said it could be defined as the primary shot. Canberra denounced the Chinese crackdown on Hong Kong demonstrators and initiated calls for an independent probe into the origins of Coronavirus, prompting an era of what then Prime Minister Scott Morrison termed economic pressure by China.

At that time, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian expressed that Beijing would not allow any nation to gain benefits from doing business with them while abusing and accusing them. The peak of those cracked ties emerged after the Australian diplomatic decision to join the AUKUS (the trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) – broadly perceived as a long-term commitment to combat Beijing in the Indo-Pacific region.

Analysts said that when Albanese came to power last year, both countries saw an urgent need for melt-in-cold relations. Polls suggest that most Australian nationals view Beijing as a mounting military threat, and Albanese will be worried about taking any move that smacks of weakness.

Albanese Visited the US for Bilateral Ties

Albanese’s upcoming tour to China became the hot news because he previously visited the United States. Collinson said that when Albanese meets with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, American people will see any marks that could indicate a softening Australian stance on Beijing. This concern has begun to take hold in Washington. Albanese described his meeting with Xi as a chance to build handrails and help to avoid a miscalculation between two massive armed forces. He said last week at the White House that it is an interest for both countries, as well as for global interests.

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Newly elected Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to tie the House in new partisan knots. The novice leader is drawing deep red conservative lines on his career’s blank page in top-level politics while keeping an eye on a risky confrontation with Democratic representatives and even Senate GOPs over Israel backing that could either build his authority base or crack his power from the start.

His strategies suggest that he is either likely to be as much a hostage to hard-right conservatives as former House speaker Kevin McCarthy was – or that, as one of them himself, he is determined to use his speakership to strengthen recent chaos and conflict. Johnson’s decision to seek a massive decrease in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) aid to pay for a $14 billion emergency funding package to Israel reveals that even a supporter fighting a factual war is not invulnerable from the stunt politics of a House Republican that spends additional time satisfying conservative media groups than dealing with the issues of the country.

House Speaker will likely face a challenging situation in the Senate to make them agree to approve aid to Israel. Johnson’s willingness to stage the 1st fight of his tenure over the Israel aid will also waste valuable time just over 15 days before a likely government shutdown. pic.twitter.com/mKJDAtvlx5

— News Live (@NewsLiveFree) November 1, 2023

Johnson is also opening new wounds within the Republicans. The Louisiana Republican refusal to accept Democratic President Joe Biden’s demand to tie together assistance to Ukraine and Israel also set up a conflict with Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, mounting the chance of the latest round of GOP tension following around twenty days of internal arguing over the speakership.

Looming Government Shutdown

The willingness of the 56th US House Speaker to stage the primary fight of his tenure over the Israel aid package will also waste valuable time just over fifteen days before a likely government shutdown if new federal backing is not approved. He may be planning to establish political capital among hardliners as he places himself on the aggressive aid fight in which he could face the concessions to keep the administration open that tumbled McCarthy.

However, if he forces McConnel and the Senate too far, he might make new rivals loathing that will form the looming backing fight. The new speaker’s moves are interesting. He was unfamous outside the House Republicans until he became an alternative speaker nominee after three weeks of dysregulated party conflicts to replace McCarthy. However, Johnson was unfamiliar with managing a restless Republican meeting for more experienced speakers, as McCarthy failed to control the chamber.

Eyes are on Johnson to see how he steers resolutions accusing bipartisan party members – which some will perceive as disrupting as the deadline to fund Biden’s government approaches. His initial noteworthy moves in the major job will also be critical to setting expectations for the top-ranking political leader of the United States, who will, if he survives – play a crucial role in the approach to the upcoming presidential election next year as the Republicans seek to stick to its small House majority or even increase it.

Clash Over Ukraine and Israel Aid in the US House

However, the instant House clash over Ukraine and Israel backing also emphasizes how US bilateral angst, intensified by anti-government extremists in the Republican conference, is waning Biden’s efforts to exercise Washington leadership internationally amid several crises. US major rivals like Russia and China depend on local dysfunction in the US to strengthen their risks to Washington’s power and perceptions of the US capacity to fulfill its international commitments.

A former deputy director for National Intelligence, Beth Sanner, said on CNN News Central that the credibility and leadership of the United States is at stake here. GOPs say that the president needs to show strength. They are making it challenging for Biden to express power and the country’s leadership by handling the backing in the way they are with all these troubles.

Johnson’s First Test of Credibility

Johnson’s primary difficult test of Israel funding came as a surprise because some of the urgency for ending the speakership standoff was to instantly clear an aid package following the Hamas rocket attacks on Israel. The speaker’s move to offset the $14.3 billion with cuts to IRS support included in the president’s Inflation Reduction Act means more delay for the bill’s approval. It does fulfill the conservatives’ demands for the decline in spending that will also be the focus of the clash over government funding.

On Tuesday, the Biden government officially threatened to veto the House Republicans impartial Israel funding bill. Johnson needs to agree that most hardline Democrats even to pass a move, such as Israel aid. That would mark initial difficulties for his role since it would reveal that he is just as controlled by a small number of Republicans majority (just four votes away from losing his position) as McCarthy was.

On the other hand, the newly-elected speaker could be intending to steer a block among Democrats at a time when conservative members are concentrating on pressure building on Biden from his hard left wing, which has denounced Israeli response to the Hamas attacks and hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians killing in Gaza. Driving some Democratic leaders to vote against backing Israel could do the homework for future campaign ads before the 2024 presidential elections.

Representative Jared Moskowitz, the Jewish Democrat from Florida, blamed GOPs that they are politicizing funding for Israeli forces when they need it the most. Republicans are establishing a political trap because they want Democrats to vote no, pledging to support the Israel funding despite his disapproval of trimming IRS backing.

Biden’s Israel Aid Request Gets Scrutiny

A human rights group has raised concerns over Biden’s call for $14 billion in aid for Israel to crush Hamas in Gaza. On Monday, Democracy for the Arab World Now warned that Biden’s aid request could sponsor the ethnic cleansing of innocent Palestinians. A White House letter about the backing request reads that these resources would back war-affected and displaced Palestinian civilians, including refugees in the West Bank and Gaza, and combat the likely needs of the people fleeing to neighboring countries.

The letter explains that it would include food and other essential items, like healthcare, sanitation support, emergency shelter support, emergency safety, and water. Likewise, it would consist of likely necessary humanitarian infrastructure costs required for the refugees to provide access to life-sustaining support. The White House refused to respond to Al Jazeera‘s request for comment. However, the Biden government gestured that it doesn’t back plans to remove Palestinian people from their homes.

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The election of Representative Mike Johnson as a House Speaker, with the dominance of former Republican President Donald Trump and the fall of ex-Vice President Mike Pence, reveals that the last presidential election denialism is a criterion for winning GOP power. Johnson played a crucial role in the failed efforts to reverse Joe Biden’s 2020 election win. After the approval of pro-Trump representatives, Johnson gained the position of speakership last week.

After months of being delayed in the single digits in surveys, Pence withdrew his nomination for the White House over the weekend. His complex explanations of his constitutionality right decision – that he didn’t have enough support to overturn the Democratic 2020 election win in Congress – unable to influence GOPs at the grassroots level bought into Trump’s false claims that he won the election. Now, Pence sits on the benches of the swelling ranks of GOPs, from retiring Utah Senator Mitt Romney to ex-Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney, whose careers were disemboweled by opposing the former president’s lies.

Mike Pence withdrew his run for the White House after months stalled in the single digits in surveys. Now, he joins the swelling ranks of GOPs, from retiring Senator Mitt Romney to ex-Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, whose careers were emboweled by contradicting Trump’s lies pic.twitter.com/Ox6OhVXj5e

— News Live (@NewsLiveFree) October 31, 2023

Those unfair and illegal lies are now the roots of Donald Trump’s 2024 Presidential Election campaign to win the White House back. After suspecting the electoral system of the United States in the eyes of millions of his supporters, the former president is now setting about tarnishing the country’s justice system. This weekend, Trump criticized the judge presiding over a fraud trial in New York against him, his adult sons, and his organization when the judge fined him for a second time for violating a gag order by seemingly attacking the court staff on social media.

Trump Children Likely to Testify in New York Civil Case

Next week, the former president’s adult children will probably testify in the New York court in a civil case. Previously, the judge gave the verdict that the Trump Organization committed fraud; Trump is presenting the civil prosecution as an effort to collide his 2024 goals. In a fundraising email, he warned earlier this month that the New York trial was a way to prevent his campaign track and to warn him of the corporate execution if he settles to continue his campaign for president. Trump’s claim was false, but his most committed supporters will likely accept it.

Pence Bows to the Foreseeable

Pence’s campaign failure says as much about a brand of GOPs that may be gone persistently as it does his own political skills. His campaign aimed to drag the Republican back to its pre-Trump era. The former vice president offered social liberalism, traditional hardline fiscal policies, and internationality through strength in foreign policy juxtaposed with Trump’s flattering toward dictators like Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

However, his failure to even reach the Iowa caucuses shows that a party still in bondage to the former president is unwilling to hear the truth about the last presidential election and may have turned against Ronald Reagan-style Political belief for good. He pointlessly hiked through initial voting states, provoking wrong perceptions about his strength to block the 2020 election result; the former president seemed to be trying to win over a party that no longer existed.

In August, Pence told CNN that he had no right to discard or reverse slates of electoral votes back to the states and that his duty was under the country’s constitution. However, Pence revealed that the former president is more popular than truth in the modern Republican. Previously, the former president tried to claim credit for widespread aspects of Trump’s presidency while avoiding fury over his role in endorsing the election in Congress. It took Trump so long to conclude that his campaign was hopeless.

Donald Trump said that his former vice president should endorse him, although he ran a campaign that renounced the former president’s populism. Despite his low poll numbers, the former vice president is the most high-profile GOP contender for a 2024 presidential campaign. His exit slightly lifts the hopes of other nominees contending to become the alternate to the former president before voting opens in January.

Trump Dominance

Chris Christie, the former New Jersey Governor, told Jake Tapper of CNN that this context is narrowing, and it never goes as quickly as some folks would like, but it is narrowing. Furthermore, Christie added that he would be ready to accept Trump when Americans start to vote in New Hampshire. But there is no guarantee that a tapering field will risk Trump’s lead with time so short.

An alternate lesson that Trump’s Republican opponents might draw is that forceful disapproval of the former president’s 2020 election denialism is possibly dangerous to their campaigns. Contenders like former South Carolina Governor Nikki Halley and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis have usually only to condemn the former president implicitly over his constitutional damage and criminal exposure – including two accusations linked to his efforts to reverse the 2020 election. They stated that it is time to go ahead from the dramas of the past and evade going into details over the former president’s assault on democracy.

Johnson Signifies the Mainstream Republicans in Doubting Biden’s Election Win

Still, Johnson has to address his leading part in efforts to publicly disgrace President Biden’s 2020 election win, having only participated in several Fox News interviews since becoming the most influential elected GOP last week after some weeks of disorder in the House after the dismissal of former speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Last week, there was evidence that the newly elected House speaker steering after the previous presidential election helped secure his rise. The representative emerged as a compromise nominee amid profound exhaustion and frustration in the Republican conference as considerable political splits made it terrible to find a new House leader.

However, the previous contender for speaker, representative Tom Emmer of Minnesota, was distrusted by several Trump advocates because he didn’t vote to block Biden’s victory certification. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said that Emmer’s vote to certify the 2020 election played a crucial role in her vote against him. Greene said that the House speaker needs to reflect the GOP voters’ will and views.

On Sunday, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sent a fundraising email to backers arguing that House GOP representatives made the planner of their anti-democratic schemes the House speaker. The email said that they must defeat their MAGA Majority and win the presidency for Republicans in 2024.

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The White House stated that Joe Biden, the President of the United States, has asked for putting humanitarian aid to Gaza on the fast track in telephone calls with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the President of Egypt. On Sunday, the US leader spoke with both leaders and conversed about several aspects of the deadly fight in Palestine as Netanyahu’s armed forces continue to pound Gaza.

Biden told the Israeli leader that they have every right to defend their land and citizens from terrorism. However, he added that the defense needs to happen in a way consistent with world humanitarian law that prioritizes civilian protection. President Biden also emphasized the need to significantly and instantly intensify the flow of humanitarian aid to meet the essential needs of civilians in Gaza.

Since the Israeli aggression began in Gaza, its forces’ air attacks killed over eight thousand innocent Palestinians, mostly children, and women. Israel retaliated after a surprise attack by Hamas on 7th October that killed around fourteen hundred Israelis, including civilians. Earlier this week, Gaza experienced a complete communication blackout, but after some days, the administration restored mobile and internet connection. Similarly, the enclave residents are experiencing dangerous shortages of water, food, medicine, and fuel.

During separate phone calls with the Egyptian president and Israeli PM, Biden called for a significant acceleration of aid flowing into Gaza. The White House said that Biden briefed the Egyptian leader on US efforts to ensure the war doesn’t expand in the region.#GazaWar #Gaza pic.twitter.com/dHWi2MJYkJ

— News Live (@NewsLiveFree) October 30, 2023

Netanyahu Call for Palestinians to Evacuate Northern Gaza

The Israeli military also initiated ground aggression on Gaza, which has gradually increased in the last few days. Israeli forces are fighting on the ground with Palestinian groups, including Hamas. Furthermore, the Israeli military officials stated that they called for Palestinians to vacate northern Gaza two weeks ago, which the UN and human rights groups have heavily condemned, is now urgent.

The White House further said that US and Israeli leaders also discussed efforts to secure the process of the release of prisoners taken by Hamas and other armed groups. On Sunday, Israel said that it has long-established 239 hostages are being held in Gaza.

Biden Call to Egyptian President

The White House said that during a phone call with el-Sisi, both leaders committed to the acceleration and surge of aid flowing into Gaza starting today and then continuously. Humanitarian assistance has plunged into Gaza through the Rafah Crossing, controlled by the Egyptian administration, the only crossing not under control by Israeli forces. However, the United Nations and humanitarian agencies have stated that the current status of assistance is dolefully insufficient in fulfilling the needs of the 2.3 million Palestinian people in the enclave.

The White House said that Egypt remains worried about the Palestinians’ fate who may wish to evacuate Gaza. Still, we must ensure that those Palestinians are not displaced to Egypt or any other country was also on the agenda. At present, Egypt is home to millions of refugees, including Palestinians, and Sisi repeatedly said that Palestinians shouldn’t move away from their homelands for them to achieve a long-lasting dream of nationhood.

Al-Jazeera and Reuters Journalists Targeted in Lebanon Strike

Reporters Without Borders said that Israel’s attacks on the Lebanon border had killed a Reuters journalist. The Israeli military deliberately targeted six other media workers to injure them. On 13th October, video journalist Issam Abdullah was killed in southern Lebanon. At the time of the attack, he was covering the battle between the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah and Israeli forces.

After probing a video footage and ballistic analysis, RSF stated that two strikes in the same place in just thirty seconds from the same direction specify precise targeting. The non-profit organization added that it is unlikely that the reporters were mistaken for warriors, specifically as they were not hiding. For clear vision, they had been in the open for over sixty minutes, on the top of the hill. Journalists were wearing bullet-proof jackets and helmets. According to witnesses, with roof marking, their car was identified as press.

Reporters Without Borders didn’t directly attribute the attacks’ responsibility to Israel, and the media freedom-backing organization said journalists had witnessed Israeli army helicopters near the spot and the air strikes had come from the Israeli border direction. According to Al Jazeera Media Network, the Israeli military is deliberately targeting journalists to quiet the media. The network denounced the attacks as part of a pattern of repeated killings against journalists.

Israeli Military is Targeting Journalists

Israel’s armed officials have not accepted the responsibility for the attacks on journalists. However, previously, a spokesman shared the sympathies of officials for Abdullah’s death and were investigating the matter. Last week, Al Jazeera Arabic‘s bureau chief’s wife, daughter, son, and grandson were killed in an Israeli air attack in Gaza on the Nuseirat refugee camp.

Al Jazeera denounced the indiscriminate targeting and killing of civilians in Gaza in a statement, which has led to the loss of Dahdouh’s family and many others. Earlier this year, Israeli officials made an apology for killing Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh after confessing there was a high chance an Israeli soldier’s bullet had hit her. However, Israel refused to pursue charges against any single person over the veteran Palestinian-American reporter’s death.

According to the Gaza health ministry, Israeli air strikes have killed almost thirty-four Palestinian journalists since 7th October Hamas attacked Israel. The International Federation of Journalists stated that four Israeli journalists were killed and one ex-journalist seized in a Hamas attack on communities in southern Israel.

Australian Ex-Prime Ministers Condemned Hamas and Urged Israel to Avoid Civilian Deaths

The ex-prime ministers criticized the 7th October attack of Hamas as a fatal and cruel attack. Moreover, the statement added that it was the greatest killing of Jews since the Holocaust, and its unpredictable brutality and violence were comparable to that of ISIS. The former leaders blamed Hamas for seeking to provoke a reaction that would kill a large number of civilians in Gaza and having no interest in the protection of Palestinian people than of Israelis.

They also said that the Israeli war against Hamas must go with the support and protection of the civilians in Gaza. Deaths and injuries of thousands of innocent Palestinians, including children and women, horrified the Australians. Australia withdrew from voting on the UN resolution on Friday, asking for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. The resolution was approved with 120 votes in favor.

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The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has voted overwhelmingly to pass a resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. On Friday, twenty-two Arab nations drafted the resolution, 120 nations voted for it, and the assembly approved it by a margin of 120 to 14. Forty-five countries didn’t participate in the voting from the 193-member body. On the other hand, Israel and the United States voted against the resolution.

Ayman Safadi, the Foreign Minister of Jordan, said before the vote that voting against the truce resolution means approving this brutal and senseless war and the killings of innocent people. Moreover, the resolution serves as an indicator of international opinion as a war between Israel and Hamas, which is approaching its third week. The UN body assembled as Israel intensified its deadly bombing of civilians in Gaza, cut off phone and internet services and blocked all types of humanitarian supplies.

UNGA voted after the United Nations Security Council had failed to take action over the last two weeks, with Russia and the United States using their veto powers to block resolutions supported by the other. However, the approved proposal calls for a durable, immediate, and nonstop ceasefire, leading to an end of hostilities. It strongly rejects any efforts at the forced transfer of civilians in Gaza.

UNGA overwhelmingly called for a sudden humanitarian truce between Gaza & Israel and demanded continuous aid access to the Gaza Strip. Arab nations drafted the resolution, which carries a political weight, and 120 nations voted in favor of the resolution.#United4Palestine #Gaza pic.twitter.com/fgTN3KiJwq

— News Live (@NewsLiveFree) October 28, 2023

Canadian-introduced Amendment Disapproved

The resolution emphasized the need to avoid a broader escalation of the Israeli aggression and demands intensified humanitarian aid for Palestinians, where the Israeli authorities only allowed a small number of trucks carrying aid to enter last week. Canada also introduced an amendment to the approved resolution that would add a condemnation of the Hamas attack, but it didn’t receive the required two-thirds majority for approval.

The resolution requires the immediate release of all civilians being hostage on both sides and denounces all acts of terrorism. It also denounces attacks on Israeli civilians but doesn’t mention Hamas specifically. After the vote, the assembly prompted a burst of loud applause where delegates from different countries had gathered to reach a peace deal.

Gilad Erdan, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, called the approval of the resolution a day of dishonor for the body and humankind. He added that the organization must call out terrorists by name, not to hide them behind empty words. He asked the members why they were defending murderers.

Civilian Death Toll Intensified

The United Nations has warned that Palestinians in Gaza are facing mounting threats of hunger and disease with no access to external supplies. The director of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, Phillipe Lazzarini, said that water and food are running out. The Gaza streets have begun overflowing with sewage. The territory is on the brink of a massive health hazard as the threats of diseases are looming.

He added that their staff report that people are now hungry, the last lingering public services are collapsing in the war zone, and UNRWA aid operation is disintegrating for the first time. Since the catastrophic crisis started, some trucks carrying aid have been able to enter the territory through Egypt. Furthermore, the preliminary aid deliveries provided medicine, food, and water to address the Gazans’ needs. Israeli officials banned the import of fuel, due to which UN aid operations are paralyzing.

On Thursday, the health ministry published a 212-page report which stated that since October 7, over six thousand names have been described as documented deaths. The list of more than six thousand names gives the age, sex, and identity card number of each of the victims. Gallant said in a briefing in Tel Aviv that the steering will start when the conditions are right, but they are complex.

Is Hamas holding fuel in Gaza?

This week, UNRWA officials said that without fuel, their workers would be unable to gather and distribute aid that reaches the civilians of Gaza, warning they would be forced to relax their relief efforts. Lazzarini added that they should evade conveying the note that some trucks per day mean the blockade is lifted for humanitarian support. Meaningful and non-interrupted aid flow is needed at this stage.

Since humanitarian aid transfers recommenced some days ago, seventy-four trucks have entered Gaza bringing necessities for the war-affected civilians, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society. The United Nations said that they are expecting eight more trucks Friday. Israeli officials claimed that Hamas is stockpiling fuel for its own. On Thursday, IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus told CNN that Hamas controls around 800,000 and possibly over one million liters of fuel of different types stored inside Gaza.

Israel Angrily Dismissed UN Truce Resolution

Israel has angrily sacked a United Nations resolution pressing a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, pledging that it will continue to defend itself. On Friday, the Israeli military said that it was expanding its fatal operations as its airstrikes strengthened across the region. Spokesperson Daniel Hagari noted that the Israeli army had increased the attacks in Gaza. Its fighter jets broadly attack underground targets and Hamas infrastructure very significantly. Hagari told Gaza residents to move towards the south. Since October 7, Hamas attacks that killed 1400 people in Israel, Israeli forces have been bombing Gaza.

After the approval of the resolution, Israeli Erdan said that today is a day that will go down as dishonor. He added that the whole world witnessed that the United Nations no longer holds even a single ounce of lawfulness or relevance. He accused all members who voted in favor of the resolution while supporting the defense of Nazi terrorists instead of Israel.

John Kirby, the United States national security spokesman, said that the Biden government would support breaks in battling to help hostages get out of Gaza and to allow more supply in. He said that the US would support humanitarian pauses for stuff getting in and for civilians getting out, and that includes pushing for fuel and energy to get in and for the renovation of electrical power.

Hamas-run health ministry stated that more than seven thousand innocent civilians have been killed since Israeli forces started bombing Palestinians in Gaza. It added that there is a critical shortage of essential needs; hundreds of thousands left their homes, and the Israeli attacks heavily damaged local and residential infrastructure.

Macron Advocates Truce in Gaza

French President Emmanuel Macron was among those international leaders who called for a truce in Gaza. He said at the end of a two-day conference of European Union leaders in Brussels that a humanitarian ceasefire is useful today to be able to save those people who are on the ground, who have faced bombings. The French leader reiterated that Israel had a right to defend itself against any aggression, but the complete blockade and the indiscriminate bombing posed significant threats to civilian lives in Gaza.

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On Thursday, Dean Phillips, Democratic House Representative of Minnesota, announced that he is running for president in the 2024 presidential election. Phillips’ announcement initiated a primary challenge for Joe Biden as the president seeks a second term. Phillips told CBS News that President Biden has done a remarkable job for the United States, but it is not about the past but an election about the future. He will not sit still and will not quiet in the face of numbers that signify that Democrats are going to be facing an emergency in November 2024.

Minnesota representative has argued that Biden would be a weak general election nominee due to his age and low approval ratings. Previously, Phillips announced he was leaving his position in House Democratic leadership after his party supported Biden’s 2024 reelection bid. However, Phillips’ campaign announcement comes as Democratic representatives seek to unite around President Biden and plan the administration’s achievement to voters.

Republicans-led House voted to choose Mike Johnson as the new House speaker, but he has to face the inherited political problems of former ousted speaker Kevin McCarthy. The move passed with irresistible bipartisan support by a vote of 412 to 10.#MikeJohnson #Johnson #McCarthy pic.twitter.com/4VvBlarlJS

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On the other hand, the Biden advocates have described the dialogue of Phillips running as an interference that would only serve to highlight the weak points of the current Democratic president. According to a source, the three-term congressman tried to reach out to the president in August, but Biden was unavailable. Phillips spoke to Jeff Zients, the White House Chief of Staff, who said that Biden is the right person to win the 2024 election and finish the job for Democrats.

Headaches for Democrats

Minnesota representative told CNN that he tried to approach Biden to tell him about his intentions to run for the presidency and advise him to call for a new generation nominee to contest against the Republican nomination. Furthermore, he added that the call with Zients was short-term but friendly. Phillips’ campaign strategy is already causing a headache for Democrats.

President Biden will not file to appear in the Democratic primary vote in New Hampshire because the state does not abide by the national party’s revised nominating calendar, downgrading its first-in-the-country prior status to second. However, Democratic leaders launched a write-in campaign for Biden.

The video announcement of Phillips emphasizes his campaign’s laser intention on the New Hampshire primary. He said he loves New Hampshire and visited the state as a Democratic presidential candidate. Two sources knowing the campaign told CNN that GOP strategist Steve Schmidt advised Phillips on this decision. Schmidt left the Republican party in 2018 and previously served on the campaigns of former GOP President George W. Bush and the late Senator John McCain of Arizona.

Last month, Schmidt encouraged Phillips during an interview on his podcast “The Warning with Steve Schmidt.” The longtime strategist told Phillips that if Phillips went to the state of New Hampshire, several voters would scream in Washington and other parts of the United States. Schmidt didn’t respond to a request for remarks on his involvement with Phillips.

Important Testing Ground for Presidential Candidates

Phillips would even face a struggle outside New Hampshire. Though his wealth is in the tens of millions, he will likely face challenging circumstances to find key Democratic donors for his campaign who are not already supporting Biden. Historically, he avoided contributions from political action committees. Phillips is among the first to confess that he is not famous among other Democrats seeking presidential nominees, such as Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer or California Governor Gavin Newsom.

Christale Spain, the Chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party, stated that South Carolina is a crucial testing territory for Democratic presidential contenders. Only now, Dean Phillips has succeeded in achieving his desired results. He added that South Carolina could be thrilled to support Biden again for the presidential nominee.

Democrats Need a New Generation Leadership

Until now, Phillips was recognized as a minor-mannered moderate Democrat, one among others who helped the party to take control of the House in 2018. The grandson of Abigail Van Buren and successor to a Minnesota liquor business, Philips’ initial campaign emphasized advocating the Affordable Care Act and fixing government dysfunction.

However, during the last year, Phillips has become the most prominent figure of the Democratic party to call on President Biden not to seek reelection. He advised that the party needs young blood to lead to combat the looming challenges in the coming years. This stance has cost him backing within his party. Earlier this month, Phillips announced resigning as co-chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee. The committee handles the messaging within the party. Previously, the committee called a closed-door caucus meeting for being out of step with the Democrats’ stance on President Biden’s reelection bid.

Democratic National Committee Executive Committee member Ron Harris became a primary challenger for Phillips for his suburban Twin Cities seat. Until 4th June, Phillips has to register to run for reelection in Minnesota before the state’s 13th August primary for nonpresidential contests. After stepping down from the position, Phillips said he felt unconventional and could speak more freely.

Polling reveals that voters are concerned about Biden’s age and have given him low approval ratings. After steeping down from the committee’s leadership, Phillips told CNN that he did not know how to oppose what they were hearing, reading, and sensing. He added that if Democratic leaders don’t listen right now, he is terrified the consequences will be another Trump government.

Two-thirds of Democrats Demand Nominee Other Than Biden

CNN held a poll in September in which two-thirds of Democratic leaders expressed that they wanted the Democratic party to suggest someone other than President Biden. However, sixty-seven percent of Democrats also said that they believed it was highly likely that he would be the Democratic contender. Eighty-two percent said they did not have a specific rival to Biden in mind. Around half of party leaders refer to Biden’s age as their primary concern about his 2024 campaign.

After Biden’s April announcement for reelection, Phillips asked other Democrats to spark a primary challenge and implied that he may run himself. After that, Phillips asked other Democratic leaders to launch a major challenge and signaled that he may run himself for the contest. Furthermore, he met with donors in July in New York to discuss a likely bid.

Biden is the overwhelming favorite of the Democrats and raised around $71 million for his second-term campaign. Previously, officeholders have not participated in primary debates. It left little room for contenders. Likewise, another long-shot Democratic nominee, author Marianne Williamson, launched her presidential nominee campaign in March but failed to get enough support.

Phillips has constantly voted with Biden in Congress and has not denounced his policy positions. On Tuesday, Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, told reporters that they appreciate Phillips’ around hundred percent support of Biden as he’s moved forward with some crucial, key lawmaking priorities for Americans.

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On Wednesday, the GOP-led House elected Representative Mike Johnson as the new House speaker. The new House leader was elected three weeks after the historic coup of Republican Kevin McCarthy. Johnson is the ally of former US President Donald Trump and a major congressional leader in the failed efforts to reverse the 2020 general elections. He will now take the pedals of the severely splatted House GOP majority and faces the upcoming threat of a government shutdown in November.

The House will now work smoothly under the speakership of Johnson as it was under a paralyzing situation for three weeks. Conservative Republicans ouster McCarthy in coordination with Democrats with their vote on 3 October 2023; an unprecedented move plunged the House into an uncertain chamber. GOP representatives tried and failed three times to unite behind a new speaker contender before eventually uniting behind Johnson.

Johnson is a conservative representative but has a relatively low profile on the national stage. In a notable show of unity following weeks of aggressive Republican infighting, the Louisiana GOP won the race with 220 votes and no GOP defections. The new House leader will now face a series of persistent issues. The government is set to expire on 17 November, and the Republican-led House will need to work with the Democratic-led Senate to prevent a shutdown, preparing an early leadership test for Johnson.

Republicans-led House voted to choose Mike Johnson as the new House speaker, but he has to face the inherited political problems of former ousted speaker Kevin McCarthy. The move passed with irresistible bipartisan support by a vote of 412 to 10.#MikeJohnson #Johnson #McCarthy pic.twitter.com/4VvBlarlJS

— News Live (@NewsLiveFree) October 26, 2023

Will the US Send Additional Aid to Ukraine and Israel?

Representatives in the House must decide whether to deploy additional aid to Ukraine as it is facing Russian aggression. Lawmakers must also select to support Israel in its war against innocent Palestinians. There is extensive bipartisan back to send aid to Israel, but many House GOPs oppose sending more assistance to Ukraine. The House approved a resolution in support of Israel hours after the speaker election to assist it in its more attacks against Palestinian civilians. The lawmakers passed the resolution with overwhelming bipartisan support of 412 to 10 votes.

Johnson said he would follow an aggressive schedule in the coming weeks and referred to the chaos that had paralyzed the chamber and distracted from the Republican agenda. Moreover, he said that Congress will work as hard as ever and the House will deliver to Americans. In 2016, Johnson was first elected to the House and has previously worked as vice chairman of the House GOP Conference.

Johnson Takes Over Following Weeks of Chaos in the House

The contest for the speaker’s gavel has initiated new gaps among House GOPs and excavated old ones. GOPs assembled around Johnson to demonstrate unity, but how long that will hold remains to be seen. Late Tuesday evening, Johnson secured the candidacy for the speakership in a vote that completed a chaotic day that began with GOPs picking Minnesota Representative Tom Emmer to be their latest contender, only for him to withdraw hours later after facing strong opposition from the right side of the conference and a reproach from the former president.

However, after winning the party candidacy, Emer faced stiff resistance from a right-wing of his conference and a rebuke from Trump. In a social media post of X, Trump called Emmer a Globalist RINO and said that voting for Johnson would be catastrophic. Emer was the 3rd GOP leader to win the Republican candidacy only to exit the contest after failing to gain the necessary votes to win the race, following Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana and Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio.

Jordan took his fight for the speakership to the House floor to put members on the record but needed help to secure the required votes in three separate rounds of voting that saw him lose more backing with each ballot. Some GOP leaders who opposed Jordan’s nomination for the speakership said they faced angry calls, threatening messages, and even death menace since casting their votes. In response, Jordan, a Trump ally, condemned the threats.

Endorsement of Donald Trump for Jim Jordan Speakership

The Ohio representative pledged repeatedly to continue his battle. However, after his 3rd unsuccessful floor vote, the House Republican Conference voted internally to oust him from the race in a dramatic turn of events. Jordan’s unsuccessful effort to win the contest emphasized the limits of the former Republican president’s influence in the speakership race after Trump endorsed Jordan.

As GOPs failed to unite around successive contenders, tensions and frustrations within the session deepened, and the aftermath of the standoff was often publicly visible as members mourned the incident and its effects. They asked whether anybody could secure enough backing to win the race given the Republicans’ thin majority.

Johnson from Ohio Emerges as a New Republican Leader

After the 2020 election was announced in favor of Democratic Joe Biden on 7 November, Johnson took the social media platform X to write that he just called Trump to say: Stay strong and continue effort because the nation depends on his determination. Together, they must use every available legal option to bring back Americans’ trust in the fairness of the US election system.

Johnson serves on the Armed Services Committee and the Judiciary Committee and previously chaired the GOP Study Committee. He used harsh anti-gay language when he was an attorney for a socially conservative legal group in the mid-2000s. In 2002, Johson presented a bill called “Don’t Say Gay,” which some described as a national version of opposing gay.

Democratic leaders slammed Johnson as a conservative, a strong adversary of abortion access, and a planner of the former Republican president’s legal effort to reverse the last presidential election he lost. The chair of the Democrats’ campaign committee, Representative Suzan DelBene, said that GOPs have selected a MAGA aide to push an extreme agenda in the chamber at the cost of middle-class families.

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The 15-member United Nations Security Council has organized its primary open debate on the Gaza-Israel conflict, seeking ceasefire and peace. Most of the council’s member countries called for an immediate truce to allow humanitarian aid to reach Palestinian civilians under Israeli deadly airstrikes in Gaza. Five members, including the United States and Russia, have the veto power, and the US used its veto power last week to oppose a resolution backed by twelve council members, which called for a pause in fighting.

So far, the Security Council failed to deliver a resolution to end the Israeli aggression, which severely creates a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The council also rejected an earlier Russian-drafted resolution. Around ninety nations were on the speakers’ list for yesterday’s debate, including around thirty foreign ministers and deputy ministers, with most of them echoing calls for a truce and a pause to fatal attacks on Palestinian civilians amid extensive destruction in Gaza and the growing death toll.

United Nations Failed Twice to Approve a Resolution

Sameh Shoukry, the Foreign Minister of Egypt, said that they regretted the failure of the United Nations Security Council twice to approve a resolution or even to ask for a truce to end this war. Furthermore, Ayman Safadi, the Foreign Minister of Jordan, accused Israel of destroying Gaza to the ground and mourned the council’s failure to call an instant ceasefire.

Safadi pressed diplomats to approve a resolution to stop the fighting to condemn the killings of innocent civilians on both sides and stop the starvation in addition to collective punishment of the Palestinian civilians. He added that the council must take a clear stance to reassure two billion Muslims and Arabs that global law will be applied.

Washington Didn’t Call for a Formal Ceasefire

The United States said that it favors a humanitarian pause in Gaza, but it is considered less formal and less than a ceasefire. Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, called for the council to back a new United States-led resolution that integrates substantive feedback. According to the AFP news agency, the draft would defend the essential right of all states to self-defense while asking for following international law. It would advocate humanitarian pauses to let in support but not a complete ceasefire.

Blinken also emphasized safeguarding Palestinian civilians. The United States’ top diplomat said that Israel takes all essential precautions to avoid harm to civilians, and humanitarian pauses must be considered to receive aid coming to Gaza and enable civilians to get out of harm’s way. Meanwhile, Moscow has submitted its counter-resolution, and later this week, the council will vote.

Russian Ambassador for the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, said that the world is expecting action from the council to implement a swift and unconditional ceasefire. Amid the standoff at the Security Council, Russia and Jordan are among the countries that have asked for a meeting on 26th October of the UNGA.

Delay is Inexcusable

The Gaza war started approximately three weeks ago after Hamas attacked many southern Israeli towns, killed more than fourteen hundred people, including civilians, and took over two hundred people as their hostages. Since then, Israel has cut off supplies of food, water, electricity, and fuel, subjecting the enclave of 2.3 million people to relentless air attacks. Until now, Israel has killed more than 5500 civilians, according to Gaza officials.

Antonio Guterres, the UN Secretary-General, reiterated his request for an immediate truce in the fighting zone. He also called Hamas to release all those being held captive immediately. However, Guterres also emphasized that those terrible attacks can’t justify the joint punishment of the Palestinians. The secretary-general criticized Israel without naming it and said that protecting civilians doesn’t mean ordering over one million civilians to evacuate to the south, where there is no safe place or shelter to live, no water, no food, no medicine, no electricity, and no fuel, and then continuing to bomb the south itself.

Guterres further expressed that it is important to recognize that the Hamas attacks on Israel didn’t happen in a vacuum. Palestinians have been subjected to fifty years of suffering. His remarks triggered anger among the Israeli delegation, and the Israeli UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan called for Guterres’ resignation from the position. Eli Cohen, the Foreign Minister of Israel, also criticized the remarks. He said there was no cause for these comments and shame on him.

Israel Justified the Gaza Bombardment

Earlier this, Cohen had tried to justify the Israeli bombardment of Gaza and argued that the only proportional response to the 7th October Hamas attacks was the complete demolition of the group. He said that it is not only Israel’s right to destroy Israel, but it is also their duty. On the other hand, Riyad al-Maliki, the Foreign Minister of Palestine, said that only peace could make Israel safer. He added that they attended the conference because they wanted to stop the killing, stop the deliberate and systematic massacres. It is the collective responsibility of all members to stop the killing. Moreover, Al-Maliki added that the delay by the United Nations Security Council was inexcusable.

Because of the worsening humanitarian situation, a limited amount of humanitarian aid has been allowed into Gaza, with a further eight trucks of aid carrying water, food, and medicine entering the territory from Egypt on Tuesday.

UN Agency Warns its Fuel Will Run Dry on Wednesday

According to Palestinian officials, Israeli airstrikes on the besieged killed over seven hundred people in the last 24 hours. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees warned on social media platform X that it would have to stop operations in Gaza because of the lack of fuel.

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Donald Trump, the former GOP President of the United States, decided to skip the November third Republican primary debate and instead announced to hold a rivaling rally. However, his announcement soared complications and intensified his relationship with the Republican National Committee (RNC). RNC got alerted when the former president’s campaign announced that it would hold a counterplan event the same night as the GOP primary debate.

Moreover, the former president has not attended any previous debates because he raised his concern that he is leading in the polls. The primary debate is the contending event in the Miami arena for the Republican nomination who announced to run for the GOP presidential candidate. One GOP operative related to the RNC told CNN that it is an intentional slap in the face. Associates close to the former president tried to defend Trump’s decision, mentioning his public frustration that the Republican National Committee continues to hold debates.

RNC Should Cancel Upcoming all Future Debates – Trump’s Top Campaign

However, Trump’s top campaign advisers asked the RNC earlier this month to instantly cancel the upcoming Miami debate and withdraw all future GOP debates to refocus its strength and money on beating Democrats in the 2024 presidential elections. During the last few months, the former president’s ties with the organization gradually became wild. According to several sources, Trump still has anger towards the RNC over the 2020 presidential election, as he blamed the organization for not having proper advocates to challenge the election results.

Others have mentioned that Trump’s own 2020 campaign should have had a better lawful infrastructure in place, while these opinions, like several involving the last presidential election, have fallen. Furthermore, the former president understands why the organization has not backed his 2024 nomination. According to the sources, Trump has asked his aides and allies why the GOP organization must remain neutral in the 2024 Republican primary race.

Concerns About Leading the Party

Republican National Committee spokesperson stated that the organization will continue to pass a fair and transparent debate process. Along with endorsing the primary debates, the organization continues developing the 2024 operation, with in-state hires for Election and Political Integrity workers in major battlefield states. The former president appointed Ronna McDaniel as chair of the organization after he took the oath in 2016 and replaced several establishment GOP committee members with his loyalists.

Sources familiar with their relationship said that after McDaniel’s appointment, Trump believes that he helped himself after assigning her the role, and as a result, he expected loyalty from her. However, McDaniel enormously supported the former president when he was in power. A source close to the former president told CNN there is a significant concern about the RNC and Ronna regarding the 2020 general elections and 2022 midterms. He mentioned what they saw as things that could have been improved with the party’s messaging approach to get the vote.

The top campaign officials of the former president are in close ties with RNC leadership and his senior campaign advisers, such as Susie Wiles. Trump’s team had clarified that they were supporting McDaniel against her rival, former president’s attorney Harmeet Dhillon. Moreover, after her victory, McDaniel told Fox News that this would be her last tenure as chair.

After a key political party picks a candidate, there are usually some adjustments between the party committee and the contender’s campaign structure. It is something that some former president’s inner circle members would like to see if he becomes the Republican nominee. Top officials, including McDaniel, should agree to step aside to pave the path for new leadership if the former president wins the nomination.

Tensions Started Escalating Before Initial Debate

After McDaniel announced the primary debate in August, the former president refused to attend it and claimed he had a lead in early polls. He also argued that if he attended the debate, he would face questions from the hostile news networks. In addition, he took Truth Social and wrote that the RNC needed to get approval from his campaign before announcing the debates. However, presidential contenders don’t have remarkable control over the format or timing of these events.

A Republican adviser knowledgeable of the process said the former president’s campaign was thoroughly briefed on the location, timing, and other details of the announced primary debates. McDaniel had told the former president personally that the debates would start in August. The debate battle came to a head when the organization’s officials met with the former president’s senior campaign advisers in Nashville last spring at the organization’s withdrawal to resolve what had become a public back and forth, several sources familiar with the discussion told CNN.

CNN previously reported that Bossie and McDaniel privately visited the former president at Bedminster in July to emphasize his participation in the debates. During that meeting, Trump was diplomatic in his plans. However, after some weeks, Trump became frustrated with Bossie and McDaniel for continuing to try and press him into attending the event.

Trump Legal Complications

The ties between the former president, the RNC, and McDaniel go deeper than politics, as the committee and the chairwoman have become tangled in Trump’s legal complications. Additionally, the organization paid millions of dollars to legal firms, signifying the former president in several probes. However, it stopped after the former president announced his 3rd presidential run amid their neutrality policy. Last November, McDaniel told CNN that the RNC can’t pay legal bills for any nominee or make in-kind contributions to any contender. Trump is the former president being attacked with lawsuits from all sides, and he is undoubtedly raised more under the organization than they have spent on these bills.

Previously, the chairwoman testified before the United States House select committee that probed the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and is probably to testify in the federal trial. The state case into the former president’s suspected efforts to reverse the 2020 elections results in just one of the many trials the former president will face in early 2024. Earlier in October, the justice ruling over the Georgia election insurrection case signed an order to force McDaniel to testify at the trial.

The Republican operative told CNN that you would think that maybe everybody attacking her would consider that she will likely result in many of his trials. As of now, it is unclear how her likely testimony could further influence their ties, but her role as a possible witness could further add to the strain between the two.

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Top Hollywood stars, including Susan Sarandon, Joaquin Phoenix, and Cate Blanchett, have pressed United States President Joe Biden to push for a truce in Israel’s aggression against Palestinians. Several Hollywood entertainment figures urged the president in a letter to facilitate an end to the brutal Gaza bombardment and the release of all hostages held by Hamas. The artrists4ceasefire.org organized the letter in which the celebrities asked President Biden to play a role in an immediate ceasefire and de-escalation in the Gaza-Israel war before the loss of another life.

The letter reads that over five thousand Palestinians have been killed during the last fifteen days, which is catastrophic. It added that they believe all life is sacred, no matter faith or civilization, and they condemn killing innocent Palestinian and Israeli civilians. Moreover, the letter said that they urged the Biden government and all world leaders to honor all of the lives in the Gaza Strip and make their efforts to facilitate a truce without delay, to stop bombing Gaza, and the safe release of hostages.

Saving Lives is a Moral Authoritative

Quinta Brunson, Kristen Stewart, Mark Ruffalo, Jessica Chastain, and Jeremy Strong are among seventy signatories of the letter, which read that saving human lives is a moral imperative. On the other hand, Israel vowed to eliminate Hamas after it performed the fatal rocket attack on the country in decades and has bombed Gaza with deadliest air strikes of a likely ground offensive.

According to Palestinian officials, Israeli forces in the Gaza attack have killed more than four thousand. President Biden has supported Israel in its war against Hamas, urging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow assistance into Gaza and stop civilian killings. United Nations and Oxfam agencies have warned that Gaza is currently facing a humanitarian crisis amid a mounting risk of cholera and other fatal contagious diseases amid the collapse of drinking water and sanitation services.

Israeli military cut electricity, water, and fuel to the people of Gaza after Netanyahu announced a total blockade of the Palestinian territory. However, President Biden said the first trucks carrying necessary aid to Gaza from Egypt would arrive in one or two days. Previously, he agreed with his Israeli counterpart to allow water, food, and medical supplies into the enclave.

Hamas Attack on Israel Intended to Derail Israel-Saudi Building Relations – Biden

Biden said he believes Hamas launched the surprise rocket attack on Israel to disrupt a diplomatic thaw between it and Saudi Arabia. On Friday, the president said while speaking at a campaign fundraiser in Washington that Hamas launched the 7 October attacks partly to spoil his efforts to normalize Saudi-Israel relations.

Last week, Biden told CBS’s 60 Minutes that the prospect of normalizing the relations was still alive but would take time after Saudi officials supposedly halted discussions with Israel in the outcome of Hamas’s recent attacks and the following Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip. Saudi Arabia has expressed concern about the fate of the Palestinian people, which Israeli brutal air strikes have bashed.

Riyadh has assisted the United States –brokered Abraham Deal that saw Bahrain and the UAE normalize relations with Israel in 2020. However, Saudi Arabia still has not recognized Israel itself. The Biden government has advocated for normalizing relations between both countries, the most influential United States allies in the Middle East. In September, Mohammed bin Salma, the Saudi Crown Prince, told Fox News that Riyadh was getting closer to stabilizing ties on a daily basis but that resolving the Palestinian matter would be crucial to reaching a pact.

Netanyahu told the US president that a pact was within reach during dialogs on the sidelines of the UNGA in New York last month. KSA and Israel were also among around two dozen nations that settled to work together on a rail and shipping corridor announced by the US president at the G-20 summit in India.

World Leaders Attend Cairo Peace Conference to De-escalate Hamas-Israel War

Top officials and leaders from over a dozen nations have met in Cairo, the Egyptian capital, for a conference to discuss ways to stop the Israeli aggression against Palestinian civilians amid mounting fears of a broader Middle East conflict. Representatives from the United Kingdom, China, Germany, the United States, France, Jordan, Russia, South Africa, and Qatar attended today’s summit with European Union and United Nations officials.

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the President of Egypt, invited leaders to come to a pact in his opening remarks for a road map to end the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip and recuperate a path to peace between the Palestinians and Israel. He added that the aim of the road map included the delivery of assistance to the people of Gaza and agreeing a truce, followed by talks leading to a two-nation solution.

King Abdullah of Jordan said that all civilian lives matter. The brutal bombing campaign of Israel is ongoing in Gaza, as they speak, is cruel and shocking at every level. It is the mutual punishment of overwhelmed and abandoned people. It is an open violation of global humanitarian law and a war crime. He added that world leaders would condemn attacking civilian infrastructure anywhere and deliberately starving the whole population of water, food, electricity, fuel, and necessities.

Mahmoud Abbas, the President of Palestine, attended the meeting and asked to open the humanitarian strips. However, the absence of any official from Israel has diminished expectations for what the meeting can achieve. The diplomatic editor of Al Jazeera, James Bays, said that while it is suitable for these nations to suggest a road map out of the disaster.

Grandstanding

Assistant professor of Middle East studies Marc Owen said at Doha’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University that there was a significant number of political showboating in the initial statements of Arab leaders at the Cairo meeting as they reiterated their commitment to a two-nation solution in the Palestinian-Israeli clash. He told Al Jazeera that el-Sisi is concerned about the civilians becoming restless if they do not see him doing anything about the Palestinian cause.

He said that the realistic, practical consequences would be, at the most, a truce and, at the least, a little more humanitarian assistance going through. After some days of confusion and diverse messaging, European nations have struggled to settle on a mutual approach to the disaster, condemning the attack from Hamas.

Israel Doubles Number of Palestinian Prisoners

The Israeli military has arrested several Palestinian civilians in the two weeks since the beginning of its bombing of the overwhelmed Gaza, and it has doubled the number of Palestinian people in its custody. Around fifty-two hundred Palestinian people were in Israeli prisons before 7 October when Hamas attacked Israel, which responded almost instantly with a relentless bombing campaign.

According to rights groups and officials, Israel has detained around four thousand laborers from Gaza who were working in Israel and imprisoned them in military bases. Israeli forces also arrested about one thousand and seventy other Palestinians in overnight military raids in the occupied East Jerusalem and West Bank. Most detained prisoners are being held at Sde Teyman military camp near Beer al-Sabe in the southern Naqab desert. At the same time, others are being held in Ofer prison near Ramallah and in the Anatot army base near the Anata village in occupied East Jerusalem.

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The United States Senate approved a bilateral bill to pledge its support for Israel in its war against Hamas. The resolution stated that it is Israel’s right to self-defense and condemned Hamas’s attacks on civilians. All present senators voted in favor of the resolution, which was 97-0. Unfortunately, the Senate didn’t condemn Israel for targeting and killing civilians in Palestine on a massive scale.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee released the initial resolution copy, which listed around 99 of the hundred senators who backed the resolution, with the missing signature of a single GOP Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. However, after the publication of the resolution, Paul’s representatives told CNN that he did co-sponsor it. The resolution also denounces Iran’s assistance for international terrorism, including its backing for Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which the US considers terrorist groups.

The resolution added that the Biden government is always ready to support Israel with emergency military resupply or other security: intelligence and diplomatic support. However, on Thursday night, US President Joe Biden passed planned remarks and called for Congress to pass a supplemental aid deal for Ukraine and Israel.

Darkest Hour of Israel

Before the vote, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the Senate would support this resolution with quick, honest, and significant action with resources. On 7 October 2023, Schumer declared that the world would plunge into a day of dishonor. Israel faces the darkest hour of its seventy-five-year history, and the US Senate will vote on a bipartisan resolution to show their support for the Israeli people. He said they stood firmly with Israel and its right to defend itself and condemned Hamas’s terrible attacks. Schumer added that it is rare that all hundred senators agree on all points.

In Primetime Address, Biden Announced Wartime Aid for Israel and Ukraine

On Thursday, during a primetime Oval Office address, Biden tied the wars in Israel and Ukraine and asked the Americans to back two US allies that, according to him, are facing existential threats. The US leader has cast this moment in history as an inflection point – a clash between the world democracies. Furthermore, he claimed that this is one of those moments, making a direct request to Americans as he wants to build support for American funding for wars overseas that might face a challenging way in Congress. However, the US House of Representatives can still not approve a single legislation in its second week without a speaker.

President Biden said that Israel and Hamas represent different threats. Both of them want to beat a neighboring country and ultimately defeat it. He added that the US cannot let petty, biased, angry politics get in the way of responsibilities as a great country. The US will not let terrorists like Hamas and dictators like Vladimir Putin win. He said that he refused to let that happen.

Biden planned the stakes for Americans, calling the wars a national security authoritative and a crucial moment for the future of world democracies and American leadership. Moreover, US leadership holds the world united, and American coalitions keep Americans safe. US values make Americans an ally country the world wants to work with. Biden said support for the Israel-Hamas and Ukraine-Russia war is essential for US national security.

Chaos and Death

The US President said that history has taught that when terrorists do not pay the price for their terror, when tyrants do not pay a price for their violence, they cause death, more chaos, and more destruction. Furthermore, he warned that if the world does not stop the Russian leader’s wish for power and control in Ukraine, he won’t curb himself just to Ukraine. He also warned more widely that the US’s competitors and rivals are observing.

President Biden said that if the US walked away and let the Russian leader snatch Ukraine’s independence, would-be attackers worldwide would be encouraged to try the same. The threat of chaos and conflict could spread to other regions, especially in the Middle East, Indo-Pacific, and Middle East.

Biden Requested for Additional Funding

The US president requested $100 billion from Congress to deliver military assistance and resources to Israel, Ukraine, the US border with Mexico, and Taiwan. However, the dysfunction in the US House paralyzes the judicial branch. According to a familiar source, government officials have informed the representatives that they want another $14 billion for border security in its new aid package, a marked surge from the previous request.

Previously, the Biden government requested $4 billion in additional assistance to combat the needs of the United States-Mexico border. The recent request involves fiscal year 2024, which is why it is greater than the extra appeal submitted by the White House over the summer. President Biden said he would succumb to an urgent budget request to back American security needs to support US key allies, including Ukraine and Israel.

Three administration officials told CNN that the White House officials believe comprehensive bipartisan support remains in Congress for approving the aid package. In August, the Biden government delivered its so-called additional aid request, which sums up unique appeals beyond traditional government programs. The proposed package asked for around $24.2 billion for Ukraine through the year-end, but Congress was unable to pass it during a process of signaling short-term federal funding.

Once again, the US president said that the US will not directly participate in the Ukraine war. Biden said that he will not deploy US soldiers to fight in Ukraine. Ukrainians are asking for weaponry aid to push back Russian invasions and an air defense system to shoot down Russian airstrikes and missile attacks.

Biden High Profile Visit to the Middle East

The president’s speech comes from his wartime trip to the Middle East, which continued even after an Israeli terror attack on a hospital in Gaza. However, he canceled his planned visit to Amman, Jordan, to meet Arab leaders just as Biden prepared to leave the White House for the high-profile visit. However, President Biden spent a few hours on the ground in Tel Aviv, Israel.

US-EU Summit to Emphasize Unity Amid Two Ongoing Wars

Biden will host European leaders Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michael at a meeting in the White House. The summit ends with a message of unity on clashes in Ukraine and Gaza—today’s European Union-United States meeting aimed to test trade matters. However, the leaders are likely to emphasize strategic cooperation against a background of international crisis.

Israel’s war against Hamas and its aggression against Palestinian civilians threatens to spread across the Middle East. Brussels and Washington hope to avoid a likely second front in the Israel-Hamas war that would see the involvement of the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon – or a regional escalation with random consequences. A European Union official said it is vital to intensify their efforts on both war grounds to ensure this fight doesn’t spill outside the borders. The official told reporters that the meeting would be an opportunity to send an open and unified message to all stakeholders in the conflict.

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