{"id":119505,"date":"2024-10-29T01:13:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T18:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119505"},"modified":"2024-10-29T01:13:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T18:13:47","slug":"israeli-strikes-hit-gaza-and-lebanon-as-u-s-aims-to-revive-cease-fire-talks-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119505","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Strikes Hit Gaza and Lebanon as U.S. Aims to Revive Cease-Fire Talks: Live Updates"},"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<p>As the dust settles from Israel\u2019s latest military strikes against Iran, analysts and former diplomats say one thing is clear: Israel, for better or worse, is dictating events in the Middle East. The United States has been relegated to the role of wing man, as its ally wages war on multiple fronts.<\/p>\n<p>That is a seminal shift. Whether on the battlefields of Iraq or in the presidential retreat at Camp David, the United States has long viewed itself as the pivotal player in the Middle East, acting boldly, if not always successfully, to alter the course of the region\u2019s deadly history.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Now, as Israel unleashes attacks against its enemies \u2014 including Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza and their backer, Iran \u2014 President Biden finds his influence severely limited. Rather than the grand peacemaking or wars of his predecessors, he is engaged mostly in diplomatic cleanup operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Some U.S. efforts have shown signs of influence: Israel heeded American warnings not to strike sensitive nuclear enrichment sites or oil production facilities in Iran, in retaliation for Iran\u2019s bombardment of Israel with ballistic missiles early this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">But more ambitious efforts, like American-led negotiations for a cease-fire with Hamas in Gaza, have failed to produce a breakthrough. And the United States has yet to propose, much less carry out, a comprehensive plan that would pull the Middle East back from a calamitous regionwide war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Nor does it appear to have much influence on the Israeli leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has ramped up the conflict with Hezbollah and Iran, and continued the military campaign in Gaza, despite having killed the Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-medium css-d754w4 e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-gbc9ki ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday during a memorial ceremony for victims of the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023.<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Pool photo by Gil Cohen-Magen<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"live-blog-post-content css-19v2tje eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-49ce2df\">A junior partner takes charge<\/h2>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Netanyahu\u2019s aim, experts said, is to use the impetus of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks to vanquish Israel\u2019s enemies across the board. Israel\u2019s defenders cast it as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reshape the region\u2019s perilous landscape. Critics say Israel is escalating the conflict without any plan for what comes afterward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou have a disconnect where the junior partner in the alliance has the grander vision for the region, and the senior partner is left trying to respond to events,\u201d said Vali R. Nasr, a State Department official in the Obama administration who is now a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. \u201cThis is not a good place for the United States to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Rivals like China and Russia are taking note of the United States\u2019 inability to curb Israel or contain the conflict in the Middle East, Mr. Nasr said. That could deepen President Vladimir V. Putin\u2019s resolve to crush Ukraine or embolden President Xi Jinping of China to move against Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">What\u2019s more, a wider conflict in the region would almost inevitably draw in the United States. It has already deployed warships to the Mediterranean Sea to deter Hezbollah and Iran, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/19\/us\/politics\/us-military-intelligence-israel-hamas.html\" title=\"\">deployed commandos to Israel<\/a> to help hunt for hostages and Hamas leaders, and helped Israel shoot down Iranian missiles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cCore to the assumption of the Israelis is that in a wider war, the United States will be doing the fighting,\u201d Mr. Nasr said. \u201cThe United States is sleepwalking into another long-term conflict in the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-medium css-d754w4 e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-gbc9ki ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Mr. Netanyahu with Vice President Kamala Harris in July.<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Kenny Holston\/The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"live-blog-post-content css-19v2tje eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-d2fd8de\">U.S. election uncertainty<\/h2>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The Middle East conflict is taking place during a period of acute political uncertainty in the United States. Israel\u2019s retaliatory strike against Iran came just 10 days before a presidential election that appears to be a dead heat between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Ms. Harris has shown little daylight between her and President Biden on the Gaza war, despite acknowledging that the White House\u2019s policy of steadfast support for Israel has caused her problems on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has had his own problems with Mr. Netanyahu, dating back to 2020, when the Israeli leader angered Mr. Trump by congratulating Mr. Biden on his election victory. But in recent comments, and in a phone call with Mr. Netanyahu, Mr. Trump gave strong backing for the Israeli campaigns against Hamas and Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cBiden is trying to hold him back,\u201d Mr. Trump said to reporters last week, when asked about Mr. Netanyahu. \u201cHe\u2019s trying to hold him back, and he probably should be doing the opposite, actually.\u201d<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-medium css-d754w4 e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-gbc9ki ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Mr. Netanyahu with President Trump during an Abraham Accords signing ceremony at the White House in 2020.<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Doug Mills\/The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The careful calibration of the Israeli strikes on Friday may have kept Israel\u2019s options open ahead of the election. A more aggressive strike might have soured relations with a future Harris administration. If Mr. Trump wins, analysts said, Israel could take more aggressive action against Iran, such as targeting energy or nuclear facilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">They also said that if Mr. Trump was elected, they would expect an effort to expand the Abraham Accords, under which several gulf countries normalized relations with Israel during the Trump administration. But without a halt to the war in Gaza, and some hint of a path to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/30\/world\/middleeast\/saudi-arabia-palestine-financial-aid.html\" title=\"\">a two-state solution for Palestinians<\/a>, Saudi Arabia would be unlikely to move in Israel\u2019s direction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Under a President Harris, these analysts said, the United States would be more likely to pursue an \u201cintegrated approach,\u201d addressing the Israeli-Palestinian problem, as well as Israel\u2019s relations with its Arab and Muslim neighbors. But Mr. Biden\u2019s inability to make much progress is a bleak omen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Michael B. Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States, said there was much in common between Mr. Netanyahu\u2019s vision and Mr. Biden\u2019s, despite their disagreement over the need for a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">But Mr. Oren said that even in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks, \u201cthe White House believes their vision can be achieved without a preponderance of military force, while Netanyahu knows it cannot.\u201d<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-medium css-d754w4 e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-gbc9ki ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Iranian shoppers in Tehran on Sunday. The country\u2019s leadership has reacted cautiously to Israel\u2019s attack on Friday night.<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"live-blog-post-content css-19v2tje eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-39a11180\">Conflict as a prelude to peace<\/h2>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Historically, diplomats said, the United States has been able to use upheaval in the Middle East to push for change. The 1973 Yom Kippur War planted the seeds for the Camp David accord between Israel and Egypt. The first Palestinian intifada set the stage for peace talks during the Clinton administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cFor sure, there\u2019s a moment of hope here,\u201d said Daniel C. Kurtzer, a former American ambassador to Israel and Egypt. \u201cIf you\u2019re Israel and you have seriously weakened three of your most important enemies, you might say to yourself, \u2018This is an opportunity to move the notch closer to regional stability and peace.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Yet what separates the current conflict from previous ones, Mr. Kurtzer said, is both the brutal nature of the Hamas attack on Israel, which left its population traumatized in a way that previous wars did not, and the uncertain leadership in several key countries, not just the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Iran, for example, has reacted fitfully to the confrontation with Israel. That reflects its own <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/26\/world\/middleeast\/iran-israel-retaliation.html\" title=\"\">leadership succession questions<\/a>, economic problems and domestic unrest, as well as the damage Israel has inflicted on its proxies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">As for Israel, Mr. Netanyahu still faces the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/04\/world\/middleeast\/netanyahu-corruption-trial.html\" title=\"\">prospect of prosecution over corruption cases<\/a>, and he governs in a coalition with far-right ministers, some of whom view the Gaza conflict as a pretext to drive out the Palestinian population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere\u2019s a vision there, but it\u2019s not going to work,\u201d said Mr. Kurtzer, who teaches at Princeton. \u201cIt will only perpetuate the conflict.\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.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/10\/28\/world\/israel-gaza-iran-lebanon\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the dust settles from Israel\u2019s latest military strikes against Iran, analysts and former diplomats say one thing is clear: Israel, for better or worse, is dictating events in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119505\" 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-119505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119505","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=119505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}