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‘The Middle East Region Is Quieter Today Than It Has Been in Two Decades’ ( Jake Sullivan a week ago )
the atlantic ^ | 10/7/2023 | Gal Beckerman

Posted on 10/08/2023 5:36:26 PM PDT by bitt

A week ago, Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, sounded optimistic about the region.

Updated at 3:12 p.m. ET on October 7, 2023

What a difference a week makes.

Just eight days ago, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, speaking at The Atlantic Festival, rattled off a long list of positive developments in the Middle East, developments that were allowing the Biden administration to focus on other regions and other problems. A truce was holding in Yemen. Iranian attacks against U.S. forces had stopped. America’s presence in Iraq was “stable.” The good news crescendoed with this statement: “The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.”

One week later, a shocking, multifront attack launched by the Iranian-supported Hamas against Israel has turned the Middle East into a maelstrom. The assault, almost 50 years to the day after the surprise Arab attack on Israel that marked the opening of the Yom Kippur War, could represent a paradigm-shifting moment as big as 9/11. So far, more than 100 Israelis are confirmed dead and many hundreds more gravely injured in a coordinated attack by Hamas terrorists who infiltrated by land, sea, and air. A thousand tragedies will unfold—at the moment, an unknown number of Israeli civilians and soldiers might be held hostage in Gaza. As of this writing, nearly 200 are reported dead in Israeli reprisal raids. The Israeli army has activated at least 100,000 reservists, and a full-scale ground invasion of Gaza is plausible, if not probable.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: fjb; jakesullivan; lol; middleeast; middleeastregion; quiet; war
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1 posted on 10/08/2023 5:36:26 PM PDT by bitt
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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2 posted on 10/08/2023 5:36:44 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=40%>)
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To: bitt

That aged like milk.

CC


3 posted on 10/08/2023 5:40:39 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: Celtic Conservative

“The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.”

The Biden administration doesn’t know bug spit. That explains everything you need to know about why the world is at peril.

One other thing: the devil is a bad devil.


4 posted on 10/08/2023 5:49:31 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: bitt

Yeah like the quiet as the eye of the storm goes over...


5 posted on 10/08/2023 5:50:36 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: bitt

calm before the storm, jake

my my that didnt age well


6 posted on 10/08/2023 5:51:09 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: bitt

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 1 Thessalonians 5:3


7 posted on 10/08/2023 5:51:54 PM PDT by DocRock
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To: bitt

It’s just like a grade B western, beginning with two guys sitting somewhere and saying, “You know, it’s really been quiet here lately,” “Yeah, too quiet...”


8 posted on 10/08/2023 5:52:29 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: bitt

Sullivan and that Blynkin guy are incompetent nincompoops..


9 posted on 10/08/2023 5:52:34 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2
Sullivan and that Blynkin guy are incompetent nincompoops..

Sullivan and his buddy Blinken are totally incompetent morons and freaks, the kind Biden specifically wanted to recruit for his regime's collection of demographic representatives: "Gotta have a black, a woman, a lesbian or gay, an antisemite or two, some liars..." to make sure it was politically correct. Their qualifications for the office never entered the thin wisps of his mind.

10 posted on 10/08/2023 5:57:35 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: bitt

You just had to say it out loud, dincha, Jake?


11 posted on 10/08/2023 6:04:23 PM PDT by null and void (I am fine with liberal cities eating the results of their recipes. H/T ConservativeMind)
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12 posted on 10/08/2023 6:12:10 PM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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"A week ago, Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, sounded optimistic about the region"

Translation: "He had already been informed by Iran of the plan..."

13 posted on 10/08/2023 6:53:22 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: joshua c

Just before the Sept.11 tragedy, the science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote that the people who believed right wing conspiracy theory myths about the Muslims planning terrorist attacks in the US were morons following nutjob conservatives. Last lines included “Does that sound like Middle East people are about to attack us? Not likely.”


14 posted on 10/08/2023 7:52:10 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Paladin2

Not just stupid or evil, but what they do in betraying our allies and America in general is treason.

Sullivan, Blinken, Malley, Biden, Obama, Jarrett, Jean-Pierre, Mayorkas, the Squat Gang, and the rest of these red, black and Islamic psychopaths.

Let the treason trials begin in 2024 and continue until the swamp is filled, cemented down and paved over so that the doors of Hell are sealed on these bastards for the rest of time.

MM Lost half of our family in the Holocaust. Time for a payback that will cleanse America for centuries.

Our family includes Iwo Jim’s - 3 Purple Hearts; Desert Storm - 1 PH; OIF- war-related medical problems; NAM journalist, on our side


15 posted on 10/08/2023 11:29:59 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: bitt

Ironically
It was fairly quiet in Israel of late

They were planning

Mossad etc was complacent or something

Lots of conspiracies abounding sounding treachery within the political squabbles inside Israel

I don’t believe that


16 posted on 10/09/2023 12:01:19 AM PDT by wardaddy (Why so many nevertrumpers with early sign ups and no posting history till now? Zot them PTB)
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To: bitt

Yes, how idiotic!

The silence is A BIG TELL THST something is in the works.

This guy Jake Sullivan has no idea how evil works.

He should be fired.

But he fits in well with Biden/Obama administration.

Goal is to destroy Truth and peace.


17 posted on 10/09/2023 3:45:17 AM PDT by Syncro (God is Good Facts is Facts)
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To: grey_whiskers

Biden happened

Or, more precisely

The Spirit of the Antichrist was released in all his evil maginations.


18 posted on 10/09/2023 3:49:48 AM PDT by Syncro (God is Good Facts is Facts)
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To: bitt

MORONS!! We are run by EVIL MORONS!


19 posted on 10/09/2023 5:03:13 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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