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In the News: Joe Biden's ambiguous attitude towards Israel
US President Joe Biden during a speech at the White House on April 3, 2024. © Mark Schiefelbein / AP
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Joe Biden
is due to meet this Thursday, April 4, with
Benyamin Netanyahu
. A telephone conversation in a tense context. On Monday April 1, seven foreign humanitarian workers, including an American, were killed by an Israeli strike. According to
the
New York Times
, Joe Biden's “
anger
” but also “
frustration
” with Israel's attitude in this war have never been so strong. Yet, as the
Washington Post
notes
, his “
unwavering political support
” for Israel is unlikely to change.
For two months, his criticisms have been increasingly harsh but have not been accompanied by any concrete pressure or retaliatory measures, the daily insists. The United States demands that the country allow humanitarian aid into Gaza and, at the same time, continue to supply it with weapons.
Representatives of the Muslim community refuse to celebrate iftar at the White House
This confusing policy is causing Joe Biden to lose support, particularly within the Muslim community. As the
Washington Post
reports
, Muslim leaders declined the White House's invitation to celebrate iftar, "
demanding a political meeting instead
." “
How can we talk about famine while eating bread and meat?
», indignantly writes in the columns of the
New York Times,
Doctor Ahmad, who was in Gaza in January.
Finally, a one-hour meeting took place Tuesday evening, the newspaper says. Doctor Ahmad gave Joe Biden a letter written to him by an 8-year-old girl from Gaza who lost her entire family, then quickly left. As he explained to the
Washington Post
, the purpose of this interview was actually to "
tell the Muslim community that they should not expect big changes in the Biden administration's response
."
New tensions around Essequibo
Nicolas Maduro denounced, Wednesday April 3, the existence of secret American military bases in Essequibo, this territory of 160,000 km², rich in oil and disputed by Guyana and Venezuela.
“
Guyana is governed by the (US) Southern Command, the CIA and ExxonMobil […] And we have verified information that in the Essequibo territory temporarily administered by Guyana, bases have been set up secret military personnel of the Southern Command of the United States, military cells of the Southern Command and cells of the CIA to prepare aggressions against the populations of the south and east of Venezuela, and to prepare an escalation against Venezuela
, declared the president, who was speaking during the proclamation of a law affirming the sovereignty of Caracas over the Essequibo. According to this text, this territory is now a new state of Venezuela.
In Mexico, Xochitl Galvez splashed by a scandal
A few days before the first debate between the candidates for the presidential election on June 2, the representative of the right, Xochitl Galvez, representative of the right, had to explain the actions of her son, Juan Pablo. As reported by the Mexican newspaper
El Universal
, in a video broadcast in the Senate by a left-wing elected official, we see the young man, apparently drunk, insulting and hitting the security guards of a nightclub. Juan Pablo Galvez apologized, explaining that the scene took place a year ago, and left the position he held within his mother's campaign team.
Juan Pablo Galvez then received the support of the wife of President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, himself a leftist, as
La Razon
points out . On her Facebook page, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller said that people close to a politician should not be used to try to harm him. In a family, everyone is responsible for “
their mistakes
” or “
their victories
”, according to her. AMLO's wife also asked the presidential candidates and their teams to show fair play during the campaign.
It must be said, to fully understand this astonishing position, that Xochitl Galvez accused the couple's children as well as their nephews of corruption in the context of the work on the Maya train, Amlo's flagship project. Accusations denied Wednesday by the president, as reported by
La Jornada
.
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