{"id":107970,"date":"2024-09-28T15:11:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T08:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107970"},"modified":"2024-09-28T15:11:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T08:11:49","slug":"not-serious-blinken-again-urges-diplomacy-as-israel-strikes-beirut-israel-lebanon-attacks-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107970","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not serious\u2019: Blinken again urges diplomacy as Israel strikes Beirut | Israel-Lebanon attacks News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reiterated that the United States believes diplomacy is the best path forward as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2024\/9\/27\/israel-attacks-lebanon-israeli-bombings-kill-more-than-700-in-lebanon\">Israel continues to bombard Lebanon<\/a>, pushing the region into a worsening crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters in New York on Friday afternoon, the top US diplomat said the Middle East and the world faced \u201ca precarious moment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe choices that all parties make in the coming days will determine which path this region is on, with profound consequences for its people now and possibly for years to come,\u201d Blinken said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe path to diplomacy may seem difficult to see at this moment, but it is there and in our judgement, it is necessary,\u201d he added. \u201cWe will continue to work intensely with all parties to urge them to choose that course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blinken\u2019s remarks came just hours after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/9\/27\/what-we-know-about-israels-latest-attacks-on-lebanon\">the Israeli military<\/a> launched a series of air strikes on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, against what it said was Lebanese group Hezbollah\u2019s \u201ccentral headquarters\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>At least six people were killed and more than 70 others were injured in the attacks on the Dahiyeh area, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry, in what witnesses described as an \u201cunprecedented\u201d assault that flattened six residential buildings.<\/p>\n<p>The death toll is expected to rise as rescue crews dig through the rubble.<\/p>\n<p>The attack followed days of Israeli bombings across southern and eastern Lebanon that have killed hundreds of people and displaced tens of thousands.<\/p>\n<p>The uptick in violence came after months of firings across the Lebanon-Israel border between Israeli forces and Hezbollah. The Lebanese group said it began launching rockets into northern Israel in solidarity with Palestinians under Israeli bombardment in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The US, France and other countries presented a Lebanon ceasefire proposal this week amid the recent surge in violence, but it was almost immediately rebuffed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/9\/27\/netanyahu-tells-un-israel-will-continue-attacks-on-gaza-lebanon\">Netanyahu told<\/a> the United Nations General Assembly earlier on Friday that Israel would fight until \u201ctotal victory\u201d, stressing that his government would not stop until displaced Israeli citizens can return to their homes in the north of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Critics have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/9\/24\/disastrous-failure-how-biden-emboldened-israel-to-attack-lebanon\">lambasted the US administration<\/a> for failing to use its leverage to pressure Israel \u2013 the country\u2019s top Middle East ally \u2013 to end its attacks both in Lebanon and in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>For months, experts have warned that Israel\u2019s war on Gaza, which began in October of last year and has killed more than 41,500 Palestinians to date, risked spilling over into a wider regional conflict.<\/p>\n<p>But US President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/7\/22\/bidens-legacy-is-gaza-genocide-palestinian-rights-advocates-say\">Joe Biden\u2019s administration<\/a> has rejected calls to condition aid to Israel to try to secure a ceasefire in Gaza or prevent further escalation in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>Washington provides $3.8bn in military assistance to Israel annually, and Biden has authorised additional weapons sales to the country as the Gaza war drags on.<\/p>\n<p>His administration has also provided diplomatic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/program\/fault-lines\/2024\/6\/21\/the-night-wont-end-bidens-war-on-gaza-2\">backing for Israel<\/a> amid international condemnation over its Gaza offensive and recent bombings in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>Against that backdrop,\u00a0Mohamad Elmasry, a professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, said Blinken\u2019s remarks on Friday were \u201cpretty predictable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got a very narrow playbook, so he repeats a lot of the same things,\u201d he told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>Elmasry also questioned whether the US government truly valued diplomacy, given its unwillingness to pressure Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US is not at all serious about peace and diplomacy. I think that the US would prefer it if it were possible, but it\u2019s not very high on the US\u2019s priority list,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it were high on the priority list, they would have exercised leverage over Israel many, many months ago. But they\u2019ve refused to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other experts also told Al Jazeera this week that the Biden administration\u2019s policies over the past year have been a \u201cdisastrous failure\u201d that led to the current crisis in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey [the Israelis] know every single warning from the administration has been ignored \u2014 explicitly and emphatically, repeatedly \u2014 and there\u2019s never been a consequence,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/9\/24\/disastrous-failure-how-biden-emboldened-israel-to-attack-lebanon\">said Khaled Elgindy<\/a>, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute think tank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery aspect of the administration\u2019s policy has been a failure \u2013 from the humanitarian, to the diplomatic, to the moral, to the legal, to the political \u2013 in every conceivable way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/9\/27\/not-serious-blinken-again-urges-diplomacy-as-israel-strikes-beirut\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reiterated that the United States believes diplomacy is the best path forward as Israel continues to bombard Lebanon, pushing the region into a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107970\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}