The End Of Al-duwairi On Aljazeera And The Revelation Of The Rafah Trap 4 Israel
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken began his sixth visit to the Middle East since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza, where he arrived in the city of Jeddah to hold talks with senior Saudi officials. US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement that Blinken will discuss in Jeddah and Cairo the mediation efforts being conducted by Qatar and Egypt between the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Israel, as well as the efforts made to deliver more aid to Gaza. The US State Department also announced that Blinken will visit Israel on Friday as part of his Middle East tour, after he visits Egypt. Israel was not initially on the agenda, but a US State Department spokesman confirmed that Blinken would go there to hold talks with Israeli officials.
The American minister’s visit comes after indirect talks between Hamas and Israel resumed in the Qatari capital, Doha, the day before Monday, for a ceasefire in Gaza and the exchange of prisoners. Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majid Al-Ansari confirmed that the talks had resumed in all their tracks, and stressed that any attack on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip would lead to a humanitarian catastrophe and would negatively affect reaching an agreement in the ongoing negotiations. Israel has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip for more than 5 months, leaving tens of thousands of martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, amid warnings from international organizations of famine – especially in the northern Gaza Strip – as a result of the occupation restricting the entry of aid.
The United States is the main supporter of Israel in its war on Gaza, politically and militarily, as it used its veto in the UN Security Council several times to block resolutions calling for a ceasefire, and also supplied the Israeli army with thousands of tons of weapons and ammunition.
On the other hand, the leader of the Democratic majority in the US Senate, Chuck Schumer, rejected the request of the occupation prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to speak before the Democratic bloc and address them. The British newspaper The Guardian reported that Schumer rejected a request from Netanyahu to address lawmakers on Wednesday, noting that Schumer told reporters: “When you make these issues partisan, you harm the cause of Israel.” According to the newspaper, Schumer explained that “this debate should not take on the character of partisan alignment, and it is not in Israel’s interest.”
According to Fox News, Netanyahu asked to speak virtually with Democratic senators, and Schumer refused, saying that “the discussion should take place between the two parties” (Republican and Democratic). For his part, the Republican leader in the US Senate, Mitch McConnell, commenting on Netanyahu’s speech to the Republican members, said, “It is better for our policy that no democratic ally should provide advice about when the elections will be held, about who should run the government, or how to run the campaign.” “Military”. An informed source said that Netanyahu will deliver a speech to Republican senators via closed-circuit television during their weekly political lunch, today, Wednesday, days after the Democratic leader in the Senate delivered a speech in which he strongly criticized Netanyahu.
Members of the US House of Representatives from the Republican Party held a closed meeting today, in which they discussed several issues, including the US administration’s position on the aggression against Gaza, affirming their support for “Israel.” House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters: “I spoke at length this morning with Netanyahu, and reiterated to him the Republican senators’ steadfast support for Israel and their ongoing efforts (to approve the financial support package), and expressed to him my strong disagreement with Schumer for his statements last week.”
