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...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: US-Middle East diplomacy: President Joe Biden hosts Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House for talks on resolving the Israel-Hamas war....
...US President Joe Biden has stepped up criticism of Netanyahu. But other US presidents went further, says Shlaim....
...Letter in response to this editorial comment: How Israel should deal with its existential enemy / From Emeritus Professor Albion M Urdank, University of California, Los Angeles, US...
...President Joe Biden’s insistence that the US would not participate in any counterstrike on Iran helped to persuade the Israeli government not to respond immediately....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Politics: The US House of Representatives will vote on whether to confirm Republican representative Jim Jordan as the speaker of the house, after Kevin McCarthy...
...US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he had decided on a response, but also that the US did not “need a wider war in the Middle East. That’s not what I’m looking for.”...
...Outside the White House on Tuesday, Joe Biden walked over to the cameras to say that he had finally decided on the US response to a deadly attack on its troops in Jordan, after two days of talks with his...
...“And I’m doing everything I can to help him be able to become Speaker.” Others were more sceptical. Dan Crenshaw, a Republican congressman from Texas, is also supporting Jordan....
...One co-founder is Joe Lonsdale, a venture capitalist and a longtime associate of Peter Thiel’s....
...Republican hopeful Jim Jordan lost his second vote to become US House Speaker. He faced opposition from 22 members of his own party....
...of President Joe Biden’s son Hunter and the administration’s immigration policies....
...The US military had failed to stop the enemy drone on Sunday after mistaking it for an American drone that approached a base near Jordan’s border with Syria at the same time, a US official said yesterday...
...And Jordan itself is very dependent on western assistance and political cover....
...“I’m quite sure that they will insist that all the big, all the important [players] will be released.” Additional reporting by Polina Ivanova in Jerusalem...
...“I’m going to be announcing very shortly a major speech I’m going to make on this issue and why it’s critically important for the United States and our allies that we keep our commitment,” he said....
...“Paul’s passionate about this and I’m happy to support him.”...
...And here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Interest rates: The US Federal Reserve is expected to leave benchmark rates unchanged in its announcement today....
...“I’m not willing to make a bet just yet on who comes out on top,” said Lauren....
...“I’m not surprised, I’m disheartened, because what Hamas did was absolutely barbaric and unjustifiable, but Arabs just see what they want to see,” said an Arab analyst....
...Recommended reading My column this week looked at Joe Biden’s unsung China shift: “The new consensus that China has stalled may be as overblown as the old one that world domination was around the corner...
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Company results: Tesla, Netflix and Morgan Stanley publish their latest results today....
...“I suspect my voters will be more focused on what I’m doing as opposed to speaker votes or what the speaker is saying about a given issue,” Lawler added....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Meetings: US secretary of state Antony Blinken heads to the region today and will visit Israel and Jordan in the coming days while Nato defence ministers will...
...He was supposed to, not only go to Tel Aviv and meet the Israelis, but also go to Amman later in Jordan and meet with Arab leaders....
...Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg hosts Jordan’s King Abdullah II....
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