Hit by pandemic exhaustion and plummeting incomes, Iran’s healthcare professionals are emigrating in big numbers when the country can least afford it.
“The fire always breaks out just when it’s most convenient for the prime minister,” Netanyahu’s exasperated chief rival, opposition leader Yair Lapid, wrote on Facebook last week.
Lapid had reason to be irate: The outbreak of conflict seemingly crippled his prospects for assembling a ruling majority in the Knesset, or parliament, perhaps the closest yet a rival has come to unseating Netanyahu.
The crumbling of Lapid’s envisioned coalition came in part because a political party in the grouping represents Palestinian citizens of Israel, and what would have been its historic participation in an Israeli government is less feasible after the worst bout of violence in decades between the country’s Arab nationals and its Jewish majority. Far-right politician Naftali Bennett, another key partner in the odd-bedfellows oppositi
Mr. Blinken said Sunday that if the current cease-fire continues to hold, the Biden administration’s plan is to try and bolster “moderate Palestinian” elements in a renewed push for Israeli-Palestinian talks toward a long-elusive “two-state” solution.
During an interview with ABC’s “This Week,” the secretary of state lamented Hamas’ “indiscriminate rocket attacks on Israeli civilians,” saying the attacks “elicited the response that they did because Israel has a right to defend itself.”
The course of the fighting that began May 10 only deepened the cracks within the once-solidly pro-Israel Democratic Party, with Mr. Biden and the administration facing charges they were too tolerant of Israel’s recent bombing campaign in Gaza that killed more than 200 Palestinians, including dozens of children. The campaign came as Hamas and other Palestinian militants fired thousands of rockets into Israeli, killing at least a dozen Israelis.
U.S. security assistance to Israel is coming under increasing scrutiny from progressive lawmakers in Congress after this month's bloody conflict in Gaza.A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, the militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, appears to be holding after more than 10 days of fighting that killed more than 240 Palestinians and a dozen Israelis.But progressives are expected to keep pressing the concerns they voiced during the.
Fears linger of a renewed flare up
JERUSALEM / GAZA (TIP): An Egyptian-mediated truce between Israel and Hamas began on Friday, May 21, but Hamas warned it still had its “hands on the trigger” and demanded Israel end the violence in Jerusalem and address the damages in Gaza Strip after the worst fighting in years.
US President Joe Biden pledged to salve the devastated Gaza. Aerial bombardment of the densely populated area killed 232 Palestinians, while rocket attacks killed 12 people in Israel during the conflict.
Palestinians, many of whom had spent 11 days huddled in fear of Israeli shelling, poured into Gaza’s streets. Mosque loud-speakers feted “the victory of the resistance achieved over the Occupation (Israel).” Cars driving around East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah at dawn flew Palestinian flags and honked horns, echoing the celebratory scenes in Gaza. In the countdown to the 2 am ceasefire, Palestinian rocket salvoes continued and Israel carried out at least one ai
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