Antony Blinken
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was “slapping Israel in the face” by pressing these positions, said Amit Halevy.
“I want to stress that these numbers are changing in real time,” said John Kirby, spokesman for the National Security Council of the White House
The top U.S. diplomat is expected to push for “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza fighting.
Barbara Leaf, an assistant secretary of state, is in the region to “advance efforts to prevent the conflict in the Middle East from spreading.” Derek Chollet, a department counselor, is also in Israel.
The U.S. secretaries of state and defense were interrupted frequently by protesters as they testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations.
“Any word if there were puppies or coloring books?” wrote the columnist David Marcus.
“Let me assure you as the person who used to write the secretary of state’s statements on Iran that this isn’t some innocent/absent-minded mistake,” says Gabriel Noronha.
The secretary “stressed that no civilian life is worth more than another—whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim,” according to the U.S. State Department.
Diplomats were told to consider whether failure to do so “would expose the U.S. Mission to added security risk.”
P.A. Foreign Minister Riyad Malki falsely accuses the Israel Defense Forces of a “deliberate slaughter of children and women.”
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was asked about the two-state solution during an interview with Al-Arabiya on Oct. 15.
