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Iranian & #Hezbollah commanders help direct #Houthi attacks in #Yemen

#Iran supplied #drones & precision-strike #missiles; provides know-how, data, & #intelligence in #RedSea; Houthis trained on advanced weapons in Iran last month

#Israel #Hamas #war #terrorism #Lebanon #Palestine #Gaza #MiddleEast #diplomacy #PreventativeDiplomacy #NationalSecurity #GlobalSecurity #NavalSecurity #geopolitics
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iranian-hezbollah-commanders-help-direct-houthi-attacks-yemen-sources-say-2024-01-20/

#Israel has agreed to daily, 4-hour pauses in operations inside #Gaza to allow more #civilians to leave the northern part of the enclave & facilitate an increase in #HumanitarianAid entering from #Egypt, the #WhiteHouse said Thurs. The pauses are to begin “today,” #NSC spox #JohnKirby said.

#NationalSecurity #GlobalSecurity #MiddleEast #geopolitics #diplomacy #PreventativeDiplomacy #Hamas #war #HumanitarianCrisis
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/09/israel-war-gaza-hamas-news-palestine/

#BarackObama offered a complex analysis of the conflict between #Israel & #Hamas, telling thousands of former aides that they were all “complicit to some degree” in the current bloodshed.

#MoreThanOneThingCanBeTrue #Complex #geopolitics #MiddleEast #Reductive #antisemitism #Islamophobia #RacistOpportunists #nationalism #InternationalRelations #ForeignPolicy #diplomacy #PreventativeDiplomacy #MediaLiteracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/04/us/politics/obama-israel-palestine.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The #Biden admin is concerned that #Israel lacks achievable military objectives in #Gaza, & that the #IDF are not yet ready to launch a ground invasion w/a plan that can work, snr admin ofcls said.

#POTUS #ForeignPolicy #MNNA #diplomacy #PreventativeDiplomacy #Hamas #war #HumanitarianCrisis #MiddleEast #NationalSecurity #geopolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/23/us/politics/israel-us-gaza-invasion.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Several #Republican senators, incl’g #RickScott & #MarshaBlackburn introduced #bills to #block #humanitarian aid from reaching #Gaza or #Palestinian #refugees.

Others, primarily #Democrats, echoed the #Biden admin’s concerns. “The hope is that the conflict can be stopped from spreading by deterring #Hezbollah & #Iran, but also to make sure that #Israel has some sense of what the end game is,” Sen #RichardBlumenthal (D) said Fri.

#PreventativeDiplomacy #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #geopolitics

At a news conference before his departure, #Austin firmly took #Israel’s side, saying that after the attacks, “this is no time for neutrality or for false equivalence or for excuses for the inexcusable.”

But he called for calm in the days ahead.

“This is a time for resolve & not revenge, for purpose & not panic, & for security & not surrender.”

#Hamas #war #diplomacy #UnitedStates #PreventativeDiplomacy #ForeignPolicy #alliance #MNNA #NationalSecurity #GlobalSecurity #MiddleEast #geopolitics