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President Biden and the leaders of 17 countries whose citizens were abducted by Hamas issued a joint statement Thursday calling on the group to accept a hostage deal currently on the table that would lead to a ceasefire in Gaza.This is the most significant joint statement the international community has published since Oct. 7 pressuring Hamas to release the hostages.The statement was signed by Biden and the leaders of Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Thailand and the United Kingdom.A senior U.S. official said in a briefing call that the idea to publish the joint statement came up during a meeting between White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan and family members of American hostages about two weeks ago."We call for the immediate release of all hostages held by Hamas in Gaza for over 200 days. They include our own citizens. The fate of the hostages and the civilian population in Gaza, who are protected under international law, is of international concern," the 18 leaders said in the statement.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said on Wednesday that protests at U.S. universities against Israel’s war in Gaza were “horrific” and should be stopped, using his first public comments on the subject to castigate the student demonstrators and portray them as antisemitic.Mr. Netanyahu appeared to equate protests against his government’s prosecution of the war Gaza with hatred of Jews. He said the protests on American campuses were “reminiscent of what happened in German universities in the 1930s,” an apparent reference to ideologically militant pro-Nazi student groups that, according to the Holocaust Encyclopedia, worked with the security forces to carry through Hitler’s agenda.“It’s unconscionable,” he said. “It has to be stopped.”The demonstrations are becoming a political headache for President Biden, because the student protesters, and other left-leaning Democrats who sympathize with them, are important constituencies in his hopes for re-election in November.By portraying the protests in such stark moral terms, the Israeli leader could reinforce Mr. Biden’s political bind.
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I used to think that Israel was a client state , since , well, it’s funded by the US. I apologize for the confusion. Th…
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The US is pushing allies in Europe and Asia to tighten restrictions on exports of chip-related technology and tools to China amid rising concerns about Huawei’s development of advanced semiconductors.Washington wants Japan, South Korea and the Netherlands to use existing export controls more aggressively, including stopping engineers from their countries servicing chipmaking tools at advanced semiconductor fabs in China, according to five people familiar with the conversations. The US has become increasingly concerned about the speed with which Chinese groups are developing advanced chips despite the tougher American controls.Last year Huawei released the Mate 60 Pro, a phone that included an advanced chip that surprised export control experts in the US government.Many Japanese companies have significantly cut ties with Huawei, but the Chinese group remains a member of Keidanren, the country’s most influential business lobby group. EU trade commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said that the bloc would be reluctant to restrict European nationals from working in China. “This topic on talent is a rather more fundamental question of personal freedom. That is an area where we need to tread very carefully,” Dombrovskis said.
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