{"id":10714,"date":"2024-01-09T13:17:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T13:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=10714"},"modified":"2024-01-09T13:17:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T13:17:18","slug":"blinken-carries-arab-message-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/09\/blinken-carries-arab-message-to-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken Carries Arab Message to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on his latest mission to rein in the Gaza war, told Israeli leaders on Tuesday there was still a chance of winning acceptance from their Arab neighbours, if they create a path to a viable Palestinian state.<\/p>\n<p>On his fourth trip to the region since October in a so far largely fruitless quest to tamp down the violence, Blinken said he would share what he had heard in two days of talks with Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>His talks would include a meeting with the Israeli war cabinet formed in the wake of the October 7 attacks by Palestinian militants from Hamas.<br \/>\nThe Israeli offensive has killed more than 23,000 Palestinians, destroyed much of Gaza and displaced most of the population of 2.3 million at least once, creating a dramatic and worsening humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken had already said he would press Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government on the \u201cabsolute imperative\u201d to do more to protect Gaza\u2019s civilians and allow humanitarian aid to reach them.<br \/>\nBlinken\u2019s meetings around the region have focused on trying to chart a longer-term approach to the decades-old Israel-Palestinian conflict, as part of a path toward ending the Gaza war. After his meetings with Arab allies, he said they wanted integration with Israel &#8211; a long-term Israeli aim &#8211; but only if that included a \u201cpractical pathway\u201d to a Palestinian state.<br \/>\n\u201cI know of your own efforts, over many years, to build much greater connectivity and integration in the Middle East\u201d he told his Israeli counterpart Israel Katz on Tuesday.<br \/>\n\u201cBut we have to get through this very challenging moment and ensure that October 7 can never happen again and work to build a much different and much better future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on his latest mission to rein in the Gaza war, told Israeli leaders on Tuesday there was still a chance of winning acceptance from their Arab neighbours, if they create a path to a viable Palestinian state. On his fourth trip to the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10716,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10714\/revisions\/10716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}