...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...says Israel should be devising a strategy for who will rule Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
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after the IDF completes its mission of toppling Hamas
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"There are different ideas out there about what could follow, but all of that needs to be worked and it’s something that needs to be worked even as Israel is dealing with the current threat," Blinken tells NBC’s "Meet the Press."
This appears to be the first time that Washington is publicly urging Israel to think about its "day after" strategy, after US President Joe
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and other administration officials have privately been pressing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his aides to come up with one in order to avoid making the same mistakes that the US made after 9/11, which led to it being bogged down in Mideast wars for years.
Asked what Israel’s strategy is for who will govern Gaza after the war is over, Blinken tells "Meet the Press," "We can’t go back to the status quo. They can’t go back to the status quo, with Hamas being in a position in terms of its governance of Gaza to repeat what it did... At the same time, what I’ve heard from the Israelis — is absolutely no intent, no desire to be running Gaza themselves."
"So, something needs to be found that ensures that Hamas can’t do this again, but that also doesn’t revert to Israeli governance of Gaza, which they do not want and do not intend to do," the secretary says.
Blinken tells CBS’s "Face the Nation" that the US also continues to work to evacuate US citizens who are trying to leave Gaza but that "Hamas has blocked them from leaving, showing, once again, its total disregard for civilians of any kind who are stuck in Gaza."