BLINKEN: U.S. NOT PRESSING FOR MIDEAST CEASEFIRE
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken signaled Monday the U.S. still would not press for an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Gaza‘s Hamas rulers as fighting entered its second week, with more than 200 people dead, most of them Palestinians in Gaza.
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Blinken’s stand comes despite growing pressure from the United States’ U.N. Security Council partners, some Democrats and others for President Biden’s administration and other international leaders to wade more deeply into diplomacy to end the worst Israel-Palestinian violence in years and revive long-collapsed mediation for a lasting peace there.
Speaking in Copenhagen, where Blinken is making an unrelated tour of Nordic countries this week, Blinken ticked off U.S. outreach so far to try to de-escalate hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel, and said he would be making more calls Monday.
Biden’s ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, told an emergency high-level meeting of the Security Council on Sunday that the United States was “working tirelessly through diplomatic channels” to stop the fighting.
But as battles between Israel and Gaza‘s militant Hamas rulers surged to their worst levels since 2014 and the international outcry grew, the Biden administration — determined to wrench U.S. foreign policy focus away from the Middle East and Afghanistan — has declined so far to criticize Israel‘s part in the fighting or send a top-level envoy to the region. . . .
Thomas-Greenfield warned that the return to armed conflict would only put a negotiated two-state solution to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict even further out of reach.
However, the United States, Israel‘s closest ally, has so far rejected moves by China, Norway and Tunisia in the Security Council for a statement by the U.N.‘s most powerful body, including a call for the cessation of hostilities.
In Israel, Hady Amr, a deputy assistant dispatched by Blinken to try to de-escalate the crisis, met with officials. Blinken himself has no announced plans to stop in the Middle East on his current trip.
Rep. Adam B. Schiff, Democratic chairman of the House intelligence committee, urged Biden on Sunday to step up pressure on both sides to end current fighting and revive talks to resolve Israel‘s conflicts and flashpoints with the Palestinians. . . .
Biden focused on civilian deaths from Hamas rockets in a call with Netanyahu on Saturday, and a White House readout of the call made no mention of the U.S. urging Israel to join in a cease-fire that regional countries were pushing. Thomas-Greenfield said U.S. diplomats were engaging with Israel, Egypt and Qatar, along with the U.N.
Netanyahu told Israelis in a televised address Sunday that Israel “wants to levy a heavy price” on Hamas. That will “take time,” Netanyahu said, signaling the war would rage on for now.
Representatives of Muslim nations met Sunday to demand Israel halt attacks that are killing Palestinian civilians in the crowded Gaza strip. . . .
Returning to the scenes of Palestinian militant rocket fire and Israeli airstrikes in the fourth such war between Israel and Hamas, “only perpetuates the cycles of death, destruction and despair, and pushes farther to the horizon any hopes of coexistence and peace,” Guterres said.
Eight foreign ministers spoke at the Security Council session, reflecting the seriousness of the conflict, with almost all urging an end to the fighting. . . .
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(Excerpt from The Washington Times. Article by Ellen Knickmeyer. Photo Credit: Unsplash.)
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Father, I don’t know all the points of conflict causing innocent people to be injured and killed. I pray for the children, Israeli and Palestinian. My heart cries for the trauma that they are experiencing as they hear sirens and bombs exploding. They have this following a year of restrictions while COVID caused losses also. Please be merciful, providing safety and provision for the children.
Keep IDF soldiers strong and courageous as You guide their leaders.
Almighty God only You are able to change the hearts of men. Open the hearts and eyes of Your people to see Your hand at work in all this.
In Jesus name we pray, Amen
I trust the Lord to take care of Israel; He always has, and always will; We need to pray that His will is accomplished in the coming days for Israel.
Father,
I pray that the violence between the Israelis and Palestinians stop. Lord make the Palestinians cease-fire. Resolve their housing dispute in northeastern Jerusalem permanently. We know that you decreed that the land belongs to the Israelis so we wait on your intervention to remove the Palestinians from there. We pray that You would destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque supernaturally. It has no right to be there. We pray for Israel’s domestic political stability to be fortified, that all Israelis come together as one people under Your Lordship and accept their Messiah. We claim 2 Chronicles 7:14, that they humble theirselves and pray and seek Your face and turn from their wicked ways, then You will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. We pray that the American talks in Vienna regarding the Palestinians’ jihad financial supporter, the Islamic Republic of Iran would stop financing Hamas, the I internationally recognized Gaza-based terrorists whose founding charter calls for the murder of every Jew worldwide would be defunded. We also pray that all their funding sources dry up along with the Fatah socialist-democratic dominated party and the Palestinian Authority, who are connected to the serial jihad-inciter Mahmoud Abbas all suffer demise. Father continue to protect Your people from all harm, that they may destroy every missile in the air and to strike back successfully causing Hamas to cease fire and surrender the land to the Israelis. The Israelis did not ask for this conflict yet it will be the means for them to regain their land. So be it in Jesus name Amen!
Satan is hard at work around the world,( but God,) the same yesterday, today, and forever; we, God’s people agree together on peace in the Middle East. God will never forsake his people. Lord may the innocent be protected, in Jesus name amen.