President Donald Trump used a tour of Israel and Egypt to soak up praise and lay out a vision for broader Middle East peace after the success of U.S.-led efforts to end the war in Gaza. Now comes the even harder part. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/14/world/politics/trump-middle-east-peace-focus/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #middleeast #us #donaldtrump #gaza #palestinians #israel #hamasisraelwar #hamas
Trump basks in the spotlight in Egypt with harder part to come

Trump has offered a vision for a broader Middle East peace after the success of U.S.-led mediation efforts to end the fighting in Gaza. But these goals are formidable.

The Japan Times
Hamas has called Donald Trump a "recipe for chaos." But one extraordinary phone call helped persuade the group that he might be able to hold Israel to a peace deal. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/11/world/politics/hamas-trust-trump-focus/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #hamas #hamasisraelwar #israel #benjaminnetanyahu #gaza #middleeast #palestinians
Trusting Trump: Why Hamas gambled on giving up Gaza hostages

The U.S. president's handling of Israel's Qatar attack on Hamas officials gave the group more faith that he was serious about ending the war in Gaza.

The Japan Times
‘We Have a Widespread Failure to Properly Name This Plan for Ethnic CleansingCounterSpin interview with Gregory Shupak on Palestine ethnic cleansing

"What we're talking about is driving out the indigenous population so that settlers can take over their land."

FAIR
Saudi Arabia is spearheading urgent Arab efforts to develop a plan for Gaza's future as a counter to U.S. President Donald Trump's ambition for a Middle East Riviera cleared of its Palestinian inhabitants. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/15/world/politics/saudi-arabia-trump-gaza/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #gaza #saudiarabia #middleeast #hamasisraelwar #israel #us #donaldtrump
Saudis spearhead Arab scramble for alternative to Trump's Gaza plan

Draft ideas will be discussed at a meeting in Riyadh this month of countries including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.

The Japan Times
More than 130 Israeli reservists sign letter refusing to fight in Gaza and Lebanon

Reservist Yotam Vilk volunteered to fight after the Hamas attacks of October 7. After months of combat, he has now joined dozens of others in signing a letter refusing to serve again.

CNN

HAMAS-ISRAEL WAR AND THE ELECTION
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"Republicans" in Congress wanted to give military aid to Israel with no strings attached. No strings attached. Uh huh. We'll give you all the offensive weapons you want and use 'em against Gazans any way you see fit. Have we figured out yet how protest votes or no votes, tipping the election to favor "Republicans," is going to help the people of Gaza? I, for one, don't get it.

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KAMALA HARRIS MET WITH MICHIGAN ARAB-AMERICANS
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Choosing top news stories and writing headlines are among the more curious arts. The Google News Top Story right now - the most important thing going on in the known universe - is Donald Trump returning to the scene of one of the assassination attempts with Elon Musk in tow. Not much has actually happened to this point. Meanwhile, in Michigan, Kamala Harris met with angry Arab-Americans. To my way of thinking, that is a huge news story and it is about things that actually have happened. So, I just ran text searches of Google News's current post on arab, gaza, kamala, michigan, muslim, and variants on the name, Palestine/Palestinians. Nothing. No hits at all. The one hit on the name, Harris, was a fact check of the conspiracy theory that Biden-HARRIS spending on migrants drained FEMA resources for hurricane relief. Guess we'd better get to the bottom of that and the heck with Gaza.

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@samfromtheus

A big distinction is to be made between supporting Israel's right to defend itself, on one hand, and supporting Netanyahu, on the other. The United States must not support Israel at any cost. Kamala Harris may want to leave it to us to call Benjamin Netanyahu the war criminal that he is, but she must make it clear he will not get a blank check from her administration. "Republicans," such as the unscrupulous Mike Johnson, are willing to give Netanyahu that blank check. Harris must not.

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@jeremy_pm @[email protected]

There's no telling about the media; but I mentioned damage done by Biden's support for Netanyahu's atrocities in Gaza, in the paragraph at the middle of the attachment. To me, the attachment states an overwhelming case against Biden staying in the race. The numbers - the information we have - run very heavily against his chances. President Biden should withdraw without killing any further time. He is doing his party and our nation a very great disservice by stalling.

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