Reply to Lambda Biden’s e-mail to President Biden and the Israeli-Hamas War”
Representative Tlaib, a Democrat of Michigan and an outspoken voice for a cease-fire in the Israel- Hamas war, released a video on Friday that accuses President Biden of supporting the genocide of Palestinians.
After she spoke, the screen went dark and a message was written in white letter that said Joe Biden supported the genocide of the Palestinian people. The American people will not allow this to happen. You should support a cease-fire now. Or don’t count on us in 2024.”
Mr. Biden has also grown more critical of the Israeli government’s response as the death toll in Gaza has ballooned and the humanitarian crisis has deepened, even while declaring unambiguous support for Israel and its right to defend itself.
More civilians would be able to flee to relative safety until the hostilities end if there was a humanitarian pause. Dozens of Americans were among those who were allowed to leave the Gaza Strip for Egypt after the Rafah border crossing was opened.
From the river to the sea is a call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence not death, destruction, or hate, wrote Ms. Tlaib in a follow-up post on X.
Ms. Tlaib said on Thursday that President Biden was cheering on Netanyahu as the Israeli government carried out ethnic cleansing in Gaza. We must be focused on saving lives, no matter their faith or ethnic background.
The House struck down a resolution on Thursday to formally rebuke Ms. Tlaib, with about two dozen Republicans joining Democrats in opposition. In the resolution, Ms. Tlaib was accused of being an antisemitic and of a protest in a House office building in which she accused Israel of genocide.
The House passed a resolution urging the White House to call for a cease-fire in the Middle East. The leader of the Senate called for an end to the war if hostages are released, while Pope Francis called for an end to the conflict on Sunday.
Both sides in the conflict have to abide by any measure that is put in place. It would have to be agreed upon by Hamas and its partners, that it stop launching rockets at Israel. Arab countries in the region should also put pressure on Hamas to release all of its hostages, which include many women and children.
Against our will, we in Israel find ourselves at a tipping point for the Middle East and for the world and at the center of what is nothing less than an existential struggle. This is not a Jihad battle between Jews and Muslims. And it is not just between Israel and Hamas. It is a choice between those who follow the rules of humanity and those who abuse the power that comes with it.
While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far resisted them, those calls have grown louder and more insistent after Israel’s recent bombardment of the Jabaliya neighborhood in Gaza, which Israel said targeted Hamas militants located there. The damage was described by the UN as “horrific and appalling.” It said in a statement that there had been weeks of bombardment that have resulted in the deaths of more than 3,500 children.
The Israel-Lebanon War: Hassan Nasrallah, the “Axis of Resistance,” and Israel’s Support for Israel
That is not Hezbollah’s plan, the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, said in a widely anticipated address to his followers on Friday, his first public remarks since the start of the war.
Israel and Hezbollah have clashed repeatedly along the Israel-Lebanon border since the war began, targeting each other’s positions and killing combatants on both sides. Mr. Nasrallah did not give a call for peace in the address he gave.
“The Lebanese front has lessened a large part of the forces that were going to escalate the attack on Gaza,” Mr. Nasrallah said. Some people in Lebanon say that we are taking a risk. But this risk is part of a beneficial, correct calculation.”
That message was most likely a disappointment to Hamas, a Hezbollah ally that is also supported by Iran, some of whose leaders have called on their regional partners to do more in the fight against Israel. Both groups terrorist organizations are considered by Israel, the United States and other countries.
If hostilities with Israel intensify, Hezbollah would be ready, said Mr. Nasrallah, and he didn’t rule out anything. He said all the possibilities are open. “All the choices are available and we could resort to them at any time.”
During one of the most tense periods in recent years, there was at least one powerful force that was not seeking to plunge the region into even greater violence.
Mr. Nasrallah is a highly respected figure inside a group that calls itself the “axis of resistance,” a network of Iranian-backed militias in several Arab countries that share an anti-American and anti-Israeli ideology and have come to coordinate their operations more closely in recent years. A decision by Hezbollah to launch a full-on war with Israel would most likely encourage attacks by an assortment of allied militias in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
During his address, which was live-streamed to large gatherings of Hezbollah supporters around Lebanon, Mr. Nasrallah lashed out at the United States for its staunch support for Israel, accusing President Biden of dishonesty in telling Israel that it had the right to defend itself but that it had to respect human rights.
He also said the group was not intimidated by the two aircraft carriers that the United States had dispatched to the eastern Mediterranean, which could strike Hezbollah targets.
“Your fleets in the Mediterranean do not scare us and will never scare us,” Mr. Nasrallah said. We are prepared for the fleets that threaten us.
Should the United States intervene directly in the war, Mr. Nasrallah said, it could expect attacks by Hezbollah’s allies on its military bases and other targets in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere.
The military has said that the carriers were sent because of mounting anger in the region over the crisis facing Gazan civilians, and the death toll in the strip has risen into the thousands. Despite growing international criticism over the dire conditions of Gaza, Israel has resisted calls for a cease- fire or humanitarian pause to help deliver aid.
Mr. Nasrallah praised the fighters from his and other armed groups in Lebanon, saying they were launching daily attacks on Israeli military positions and destroying communications infrastructure. Those attacks had forced Israeli civilians to flee and drawn Israeli military resources to the north so that they could not contribute to attacks on Gaza.
There are large screens in Lebanon where Hezbollah supporters gather to watch the speech. The largest site, in Beirut’s southern suburbs, was decorated with Hezbollah and Palestinian flags. The supporters yelled, “We are here for you, Nasrallah” when he appeared on the screen.
He said that Israeli treatment of the Palestinians had gotten so bad that a “great event” had been required to restore the Palestinian cause as “the No. 1 issue in the world.”
The Israeli Military Campaign in Gaza: Rabbinels, Moslemians, Foreigners, and the Jewish Dialogue of the Middle East, and a Prayer for Israel
After Mr. Nasrallah finished speaking in a speech in Lebanon, a man fired a volley of celebratory gunfire into the air. He would be willing to fight Israel if called upon by Hezbollah.
A driver who had grown poorer during Lebanon’s deep economic crisis in recent years, Mr. Sbeti was not overly worried about the vast damage that Israel could do to Lebanon in a new war.
Ross Abramson, a software engineer and recent New York University graduate, had a regular news diet until recently. He regularly checked his phone for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He was a Jew with an interest in Israel and he frequented The Times of Israel.
Is it possible I’ve watched it religiously before? No,” he said, adding that he found Fox’s reporting and commentary on Israel’s military campaign in Gaza “less antagonistic for sure” than that of other news organizations. “You don’t feel as attacked,” Mr. Abramson said.
It’s somewhat of an improbable alliance. Jews identify as democrats. And as the Republican Party came to embrace a more populist brand of politics that vilifies “globalist” corporate interests and wealthy liberal businessmen like George Soros — something many see as coded antisemitism — Fox News hosts and guests promoted those views.
All of this proves that the terrorist ideology threatens all decent people, even Jews, because of the collision of values here in Israel. According to history, the Jewish people are often the first to be found by foul ideologies. We find ourselves on the front lines of this battle, but all nations face this threat, and they must understand that they could be next.
I write these lines from Jerusalem, after spending time with the families of some of the 240 people kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7. The hostages in Gaza include Jewish Israelis, Muslim Israelis, and foreign citizens.
The meetings with these families were some of the most difficult and fraught I have ever held. I’ve also spoken with families of some of the more than 1,400 of my people who were killed that day, many of them murdered in their living rooms and kitchens or dancing at a music festival. The blood was on my shoes, so I had to wash it off.
Hamas had no fear about burning babies, just likeISIS and Al Qaeda. They tortured children, raped women and destroyed peace-loving communities. They made sure to broadcast their actions live because they were so proud of them. The videos will stain those Palestinians who celebrated that day and their supporters who watched them, because they showed the evil of the terrorists and the ideas that inspired them.
We’ve heard that governments fail to condemn Hamas, instead condemning Israel’s response and even offering justification for Hamas atrocities. It would have been unthinkable to hear such moral confusion uttered after the Sept. 11 attacks or after bombings in London, Barcelona and Baghdad. I spoke about terrorism at a meeting of Congress and said it was contrary to the principles of peace. Everyone disagrees, it turns out.
As our soldiers fall in battle, we are trying to alert the civilians in the area with leaflets and phone calls to let them know that we are on top of the situation, so that they can move out of the main battle zone. Hundreds of aid trucks are arriving each day.
During President Biden’s visit to Israel earlier this month, these questions were on the agenda and will be a point of focus during Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to the region beginning Friday.
After the First Day of World War I, Hundreds of Demonstrations Against Israel regrouped in Washington, D.C., on Saturday
The crowd in Washington was so big that it was difficult to tell the total number of attendees. Some areas of the rally were rowdy, while others were calm.
After a week of mass demonstrations in Asia and Europe, marches organized in cities including New York, Nashville, Cincinnati, Las Vegas and San Francisco demanded a cease-fire and lifting of the siege.
A survey released by the University on Thursday found that 84 percent of voters were concerned that the United States would be dragged into the Middle East conflict. More military aid to Israel for their campaign against Hamas was supported by 51 percent of the population. Humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza was supported by 71 percent.
Students, unions, antiwar advocates and other groups have always connected themselves to Palestinian politics and were poised to demonstrate on Saturday.
A man wearing a Palestinian flag and shouting “Free, free Palestine!” from the top of a traffic light. A calmer segment of protesters sat quietly at the World War I Memorial, holding up signs and Palestinian flags and looking on at Freedom Plaza, where chants and cheers abounded.
The protesters sitting on the ledge of the White House Visitor Center wanted their message to the President to be clear. “Stop U.S. military aid to Israel,” their signs read. Another said, “You lost my vote.”