U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has met in Israel with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and has told him the U.S. stands with him in Israel's war against Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers.
S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is in Israel on Friday for meetings with senior government leaders and to see firsthand some of the U.S. weapons and security assistance that Washington rapidly delivered to Israel in the first week of its war with the militant Hamas group.
Austin is the second high-level U.S. official sent by President Joe Biden to visit Israel in two days. His quick trip from Brussels, where he was attending a NATO defense ministers meeting, came a day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in the region. Blinken is continuing the frantic Mideast diplomacy, seeking to avert an expanded regional conflict.
Palestine couldn't have cared less and supported the ottoman empires genocide against christians. You expect people like me, whos ancestors were almost exterminated by Muslims, to care about palestine, a region named by the romans to disassociate it from being jewish. You know the Jews, who were there first inhabitants, who were kicked out by force from their native homeland. Let me guess, that happened a long time ago, its 2023 now, let the past go. Well in 50 years let me know if anyone cares that israel leveled gaza and engaged in a genocide. Hopefully ill be around to tell you it happened a long time ago and to let it go. Jews live there now, cant kick people out of their homes.
The Canaanites were the first inhabitants that we know of. King David captured it from them and turned it into a capital. So by your logic we should give it back to the Canaanites from whom King David stole it from 3,000 years ago.
Yes Israel is terribly short of military power here. Better send a few billion more worth of bombs, I'm sure that will solve the problem once and for all.
His quick trip from Brussels, where he was attending a NATO defense ministers meeting, came a day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in the region.
Defense officials traveling with Austin said he wants to underscore America’s unwavering support for the people of Israel and commitment to making sure the country has what it needs to defend itself.
A day after visiting Israel to offer the Biden administration’s diplomatic support in person, Blinken was in Jordan on Friday and held talks with Jordanian King Abdullah II.
The U.S. top diplomat “underscored that Hamas does not stand for the Palestinian people’s right to dignity and self-determination and discussed ways to address the humanitarian needs of civilians in Gaza while Israel conducts legitimate security operations to defend itself from terrorism,” Miller said.
According to a palace statement, Abdullah stressed the need to open humanitarian corridors for medical aid and relief into Gaza while protecting civilians and working to end the escalation of the conflict.
Blinken will make a brief stop in Bahrain and end the day in Saudi Arabia, a key player in the Arab world that has been considering normalizing ties with Israel, a U.S.-mediated process that is now on hold.
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