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President Biden plans to call on Congress on Wednesday to put aside partisan differences and promptly pass a multibillion-dollar aid package for Ukraine, warning that failure to do so could enable President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to reclaim momentum in the war. Efforts to resupply Ukraine as well as Israel appear at an impasse…
More than 100 former members of the Obama and Biden administrations have sent a letter to the White House praising President Biden’s “moral clarity, courageous leadership and staunch support of Israel,” in an effort to defend Mr. Biden’s policies amid roiling dissent within the administration. The letter backs the president’s request for $14.3 billion in…
Representative Rashida Tlaib, Democrat of Michigan and an outspoken voice for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war, released a video on Friday that accused President Biden of supporting the genocide of Palestinians. “Mr. President, the American people are not with you on this one,” Ms. Tlaib says in the video. “We will remember in 2024.”…
President Biden and his top aides have been urging Israeli leaders against carrying out any major strike against Hezbollah, the powerful militia in Lebanon, that could draw it into the Israel-Hamas war, American and Israeli officials say. The U.S. officials are concerned that some of the more hawkish members of Israel’s war cabinet have wanted…
President Biden urged the Israeli people on Wednesday not to be consumed by the rage they feel about the Hamas terror attacks, speaking in Tel Aviv during a wartime visit that came just hours after a devastating explosion at a Gaza hospital. Mr. Biden said earlier Wednesday that evidence shown to him by the American…
Gazan health authorities said hundreds of people were killed in a blast on Tuesday at a hospital in Gaza City where thousands of civilians had been sheltering — an overwhelming loss of civilian life that immediately inflamed the region. The authorities blamed an Israeli airstrike, but the assertion was disputed by the Israel Defense Forces,…
President Biden said on Tuesday that he was “outraged and deeply saddened” by a devastating blast that struck a hospital in Gaza City just hours before he left Washington for a wartime trip to Israel. The explosion, which killed hundreds of people, reflects the volatility of the conflict and put into relief the enormous political…
President Biden debated on Monday whether to travel to Israel in the coming days to show solidarity with America’s closest ally in the Middle East, but also to urge limits on what seems bound to be a casualty-filled ground invasion of the Gaza Strip. Mr. Biden met with top intelligence officials and his closest advisers…
Biden weighs a visit to Israel President Biden is considering a trip to Israel in the coming days to demonstrate American solidarity. The trip would be a remarkable gamble and could tie Biden and the U.S. to bloodshed in Gaza. The extraordinary invitation to Biden from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came as Israelis learned more…
WASHINGTON: US president Joe Biden on Wednesday condemned the weekend attack by Hamas militants on Israel as the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust as the number of US citizens killed in the fighting ticked up to at least 22.“This attack was a campaign of pure cruelty — not just hate, but pure cruelty…
