Innehållsförteckning för October 27, 2023 från Newsweek International

PeriscopeNEWS, OPINION + ANALYSISPOLITICS REP. GRACE MENG OF NEW YORK ONCE DECLARED “President An Quanzhong Day” in her congressional district to honor a China-born businessman’s work for his Chinese hometown association in New York. At the time, her campaign took thousands of dollars in donations from An. Today An and his daughter—a green-card holder and a U.S. citizen, respectively, at the time of their arrests—are among seven people facing charges of acting as foreign agents for allegedly colluding with Chinese officials to try to force a U.S. resident back to China against his will. Another prolific donor to New York politicians was U.S. citizen Lu Jianwang, one of two men arrested for allegedly hosting a clandestine Chinese police station in Manhattan. Meng, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New…

OCTOBER 7, 2023, WAS THE BLOODIEST day in Israeli history. As the world now knows, in the early hours that morning, during a Jewish holiday, more than a thousand Hamas terrorists invaded Israel from Gaza, aiming to massacre as many people as possible. By the end of the day, they had murdered at least 1,300 Israelis, wounded thousands more and taken about 150 men, women and children as hostages, all with unspeakable savagery. One of the world’s deadliest terrorist attacks ever, the Hamas assault was also the largest slaughter of Jews since the end of the Holocaust. President Joe Biden, like many world leaders, denounced Hamas’ acts as “pure, unadulterated evil,” but the international response cannot be limited to words alone. The massacre by Hamas presents the International Criminal Court…

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AMERICA’S RESPONSE TO OUTBREAKS OF violence in the Middle East conflict has followed the same pattern for decades: U.S. presidents from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton to Barack Obama pledged support for Israel, then urged restraint and eventually called for an end to the fighting as the death toll rose. But President Joe Biden faces a unique combination of factors that may constrain his ability to rein in the war between Israel and Hamas—including the unprecedented scale of Hamas’s attack, the growing threat of a regional war, a hostage crisis involving American citizens and growing calls for de-escalation from progressive Democrats who have become increasingly vocal in their support for Palestinians in recent years—and whose support is vital to Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign. As Israel’s newly formed emergency wartime government…

THE SCALE AND BRUTALITY OF HAMAS’ grisly attack on Israel on October 7, in which at least 1,300 Israeli men, women and children were brutally murdered, has understandably triggered a massive outpouring of sympathy and solidarity with Israel from around the world, particularly in the United States, Europe and other western nations. Meanwhile, Palestinians in Gaza are also dying in disturbingly large numbers. In response to the mass terror attack, Israel launched a massive aerial bombardment of Gaza, the most devastating the besieged enclave has ever seen. Already, more than 2,200 Palestinians have been killed and 8,500 injured. Entire neighborhoods have been leveled, leaving over 423,000 internally displaced. And yet, there has been no similar outpouring of sympathy for Palestinians. In fact, the U.S. and European powers have resisted formal…

ISRAEL AT WAR AS THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES (IDF) step up their assault on the Gaza Strip in the wake of the deadliest-ever Palestinian militant assault on Israel, the murky figure at the heart of Hamas’ military wing may be getting ready to make his final stand. Little is known for certain about Mohammed Deif. That’s by design for Hamas’ Al-Qassam Military Brigades supreme commander, whose nom de guerre means “guest” in an apparent reference to his frequently shifting location. Deif’s elusiveness has allowed him to escape numerous Israeli attempts on his life. But having survived so long, a massive IDF incursion could bring a dramatic end to a bloody game of cat-and-mouse that’s dragged on for more than three decades. “I don’t think that a man with his legacy,…

HE HAMAS ATTACK ON ISRAEL SHOWED a sophistication in planning and execution that points clearly to a deep Iranian role. The Washington Post reported that intelligence experts say “key support from Iranian allies who provided military training and logistical help as well as tens of millions of dollars for weapons” are behind the Hamas atrocity. And Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer has said, “In terms of broad complicity, we are very clear about a role for Iran,” because of its support for Hamas. Whether or not Iran was directly involved in this attack, as many experts believe, it could not have happened without Iran. Just as Iran turned the Lebanese Shia militant and political organization Hezbollah into one of the world’s largest and most dangerous terrorist groups, so it…