Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is heading to Qatar for the 19th Asian Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) Summit, aiming to strengthen diplomatic ties amid Iran’s ongoing regional maneuvers.
The US must rethink its relationships with allies like Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey, who have supported or enabled terrorist organizations, to better safeguard its national security.
IDF accuses Al Jazeera of "incitement to and support of terrorism" in court order.
Keynote speaker Waddah Khanfar, an ex-Al-Jazeera official, is identified by many as a Hamas member himself, raising questions as to the private US university’s proximity to the Hamas axis.
"Ultimately, the growing concerns [against Israel] are the reason why fewer approvals are being granted, even if no one wants to say it out loud."
The meeting was intended to try to get Hamas to ease its new demands on the release of additional Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences in Israel.
The Qatari PM came to Paris specifically for this meeting with Gantz.
With Iran and Qatar emboldening Hamas through financial and military support, and the US slow to act, the crisis will only get worse.
US officials are skeptical about introducing a new hostage deal proposal as negotiations between Hamas and Israel stall, despite ongoing efforts with Qatar and Egypt.
He added that it was a question of political will and he hoped leaders on both sides recognized "the time has come finally to make some hard choices and some difficult compromises."
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