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Blinken raised the issue during his conversations in Israel with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken hinted that he would in fact restrict military aid to Israel over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as he spoke with reporters in Israel prior to his departure for Saudi Arabia. “I will follow the law,” he said when pressed if he would uphold Memorandum National Security Memorandum 20, which makes military assistance contingent on compliance with international law and international humanitarian law. The United States had warned Israel in April that it risked being...

“It's also been an imperative for us to try to make sure that this conflict doesn't spread." US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Israel not to escalate its conflict with Tehran and the Iranian proxy group Hezbollah as it continues to respond militarily to attacks from both entities. “It's also been an imperative for us to try to make sure that this conflict doesn't spread. We are resolute in our defense of Israel when it comes to attacks it's receiving from Iran, from Iran's proxies,” Blinken told reporters on Wednesday morning before departing Tel Aviv for Saudi Arabia. “We...

The Biden-Harris administration announced it would not be extending parole for the hundreds of thousands of non-citizens enrolled in a hotly debated migrant flight program, but border hawks say the tough declaration likely won’t lead to any of them being removed from the country. The migrants who entered the United States on two-year parole via the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan (CHNV) program will not see their status renewed when it ends, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed to the Daily Caller ...

The Biden administration has warned Israel that it must increase the amount of humanitarian aid it is allowing into Gaza within the next 30 days or it could risk losing access to U.S. weapons funding. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned their Israeli counterparts in a letter dated Sunday that the changes must occur. The letter, which restates U.S. policy toward humanitarian aid and arms transfers, was sent amid deteriorating conditions in northern Gaza and an Israeli airstrike on a hospital tent site in central Gaza that killed at least four people and burned others....

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that due to the “trauma” of both October 7 and “the trauma that’s been inflicted on Palestinians since then” “one of the challenges is overcoming dehumanization, making sure that people continue to see the humanity in the other and act accordingly.” Blinken stated, “What we’re seeing throughout the region, in all directions, is, unfortunately, because of the trauma that’s been inflicted — October 7, the trauma that’s been inflicted on Palestinians since then — one of the challenges is overcoming dehumanization, making sure that people continue to...

Antony Blinken helped create the infamous "Dirty 51" letter from former intelligence officials that claimed The Post's reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation, Miranda Devine reports in her new book.. Hunter Biden’s abandoned MacBook was a window into the Biden family business, a secret international influence peddling operation. .. ... He would later recruit his childhood friend to be the Obama administration’s lead negotiator on the ill-starred Iran nuclear deal, only to suffer the embarrassment of Malley being suspended without pay in 2023 during Biden’s presidency, the target of a mysterious FBI espionage investigation which continues to this...

Polish Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Grzegorz Braun slammed US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and the Biden Regime’s WWIII agenda on Thursday as Blinken met with leaders about increasing involvement in the Ukraine war. The conservative Polish leader told Blinken to “Go Home!” and declared, “We don’t want Polish people paying and dying for your wars” amid discussions with Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski about easing restrictions on Poland’s aid to Ukraine, including permission to supply Ukraine with long-range missiles. This request goes against Putin’s warning. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Putin once again warned that the U.S....

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Israel’s Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon responded to President Joe Biden criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by alleging Netanyahu hasn’t done enough to get a ceasefire by stating that “we expect our ally, the U.S., to say, very clearly, Hamas is to be blamed for the fact we don’t have a deal today” in the wake of Hamas killing multiple Israeli hostages and an American hostage. Danon said, “[I]t’s very simple, the blame is on Hamas, period. You cannot blame Netanyahu or the Israelis. Hamas always say[s]...

An American security delegation secretly traveled to Tehran in order to try to deescalate tensions in the region between Iran and Israel. In a meeting with Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei the delegation is reported to have supplied the names of ten Israeli agents in Iran that are believed to have been involved in the assassination of Hamas's Ismail Haniyeh when he visited the country in late July. US Secretary of State Tony Blinken insisted that "we haven't given up any names yet, but we won't rule it out as an option. If the alternative is a regional war between...

Representatives of the jihadist terrorist organization Hamas condemned the terms of an alleged “bridging proposal” to move it towards a ceasefire with Israel on Monday. Hamas representatives told various media outlets that the provisions U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that day were a “coup against” a previous Hamas-friendly proposal Israel rejected. Blinken was in Israel on Monday to discuss what he called the “last opportunity” for an end to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) ongoing self-defense operations in Gaza, Hamas’s stronghold territory used to launch the unprecedented October 7 attack on the...

TEL AVIV, Israel — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that Israel has accepted a proposal to bridge differences holding up a cease-fire and hostage release in Gaza, and he called on Hamas to do the same, without saying whether it had addressed concerns cited by the militant group. Blinken spoke after holding a 2 1/2 hour meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier in the day, and was expected to travel to Egypt on Tuesday. The United States, Egypt and Qatar have spent months trying to broker an agreement, with the talks repeatedly stalling. He did...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Monday with Israeli officials and pushed for a hostage and ceasefire deal as Democrats kicked off their convention in Chicago, with the goal of a deal by the end of the week. President Joe Biden laid out the end-of-week goal on Saturday, and Blinken claimed that it was the “last opportunity” for an agreement — though it was not clear why, other than the political goal of reaching a deal during the convention. Israeli President Isaac Herzog met with Blinken, and told the media afterwards that Hamas, not Israel, was blocking a hostage deal:...

The US proposal essentially corresponds to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection of a permanent ceasefire and a refusal to allow for the IDF to fully withdraw from Gaza, Hamas said. Hamas rejected the United States “bridging proposal” to help finalize a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Israel Sunday night amid a major diplomatic blitz to finalize an agreement. The new “bridging proposal” placed new conditions on the exchange of hostages for Palestinians jailed in Israel, Hamas said as it referred to Palestinian security prisoners and terrorists that would be released. Other...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken postponed his visit to the Middle East due to security uncertainty and the possible Iranian retaliation, Walla reported on Tuesday. This follows earlier reports by Axios that Blinken was scheduled to travel to the Middle East on Tuesday amid high tensions in the region. His visit was reported to include Qatar, Egypt, and Israel. Blinken has previously visited Israel and the region to quell tensions, threats of regional war, and forging a deal to return the hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. In June, along with traveling to Israel, he visited Egypt,...

The Wall Street Journal on Thursday published an extensive report on the secret negotiations to secure the release of Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich from Russian prison. It includes a startling passage about how President Joe Biden, sometimes referred to as "Sleepy Joe," almost botched the prisoner exchange because has no idea what's going on, and strongly suggests that Secretary of State Antony Blinken is actually running the show.The following scene involves Gershkovich's mother, Ella, ambushing Biden in a handshake line at the White House Correspondents' Dinner earlier this year. She relayed a message from Roger Carstens, the special presidential envoy...

During an interview with CNA on Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken responded to a question on how far the U.S. will go to defend Israel from attacks from Iran after Israel’s reported killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh by stating that since October 7, “one of the things that we’ve been focused on is trying to make sure that the conflict that emerged in Gaza doesn’t spread, doesn’t go to other places, doesn’t escalate, and we’re going to continue to do that as well. Now, again, the best way to bring the temperature down everywhere and to put...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. was not involved in the death of top Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed early Wednesday morning in an apparent assassination attempt in Iran. Blinken, who is on a multi-country trip to the Indo-Pacific, told Channel News Asia the U.S. was “not aware of or involved in” the assassination attempt. At at separate Wednesday event in Singapore, Blinken reiterated his support for a ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas. “It’s profoundly in the interest of putting things in a better path,” he said of a deal. “We’ll continue...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who ambushed a stunned U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during an early encounter in 2021 with allegations that America has a worse human rights record than China, gave Blinken one more political lecture on Saturday. Wang told Blinken that China “does not seek hegemony or power politics” like the United States does, and it “has the best record among major powers on peace and security issues.” Wang scolded Blinken on the sidelines of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting in Laos, telling him the U.S. must show more respect for the Chinese...

Iran is capable of producing fissile material for use in a nuclear weapon within "one or two weeks," U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday. News of Iran's capabilities follows the recent election of President Masoud Pezeshkian, who has said his goal is to "get Iran out of its isolation," and who favors reviving the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and global powers. Blinken said that "what we've seen in the last weeks and months is an Iran that's actually moving forward" with its nuclear program. The United States unilaterally withdrew in 2018 from the Iran nuclear deal, which...

More than four dozen former foreign and national security officials for the U.S. government called on Biden in a letter Friday to drop out of the presidential race. "We write as former U.S. officials who have strongly supported your presidency and your initiatives to strengthen U.S. foreign and national security policy," they wrote. "We have welcomed the measures you have taken to promote U.S. alliances in Europe, Asia, and the Americas; to manage relations with great powers; and to address global issues such as climate change. These initiatives have been built on your decades-long record of support for responsible U.S....