Escalating violence in the Middle East including Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip and rocket assaults from terrorist group Hamas on Israeli cities have killed at least 188 people in the Gaza Strip and eight in Israel since tensions flared last week. Among the dead are 55 children in Gaza and a 5-year-old boy in Israel, reported the Associated Press.
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Joe Biden has shown little signs he would publicly ramp up pressure on Israel to agree to an immediate ceasefire and that could partly be because he wants to revive the Iranian nuclear deal, suggested Jonathan Schanzer, senior vice president for research at the hawkish Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Pentagon weighs keeping Trump-era change to ‘psychological operations’
The policy change highlights tension between military leaders and diplomats about how the U.S. handles gray-area operations that fall short of all-out war.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington on May 6, 2021. | AP Photo/Susan Walsh
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In the final months of the Trump administration, then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper quietly moved to let the military run influence campaigns often called “psyops” more quickly and with less time for input from the State Department.
The policy change, which eight
people described to POLITICO, highlights tension between military leaders and diplomats about how the U.S. handles gray-area operations that fall short of all-out war.
The Israeli military and Hamas militants in the besieged Gaza enclave have engaged in the worst round of fighting since the 2014 Gaza War this week amid broader.
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