“Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer is expected in Washington on Tuesday for meetings at the White House and State Department about Israel’s plans for eventually scaling down the war and transitioning to a low-intensity operation in Gaza,” Axios reports.
U.S. Strikes Drone Facilities Used by Iran-Sponsored Militias
“The U.S. said it struck three drone facilities used by a Shiite militant group and other groups in Iraq in response to a series of attacks by the groups on American positions in Iraq and Syria, including an attack Monday in northern Iraq in which three U.S. troops were wounded, including one critically,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Biden Did Not Ask Netanyahu for Cease-Fire
“President Biden said that he did not ask Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to negotiate a cease-fire in the country’s war with Hamas during a call Saturday, despite rising pressure to do so,” The Hill reports.
Ukraine Arrests Defense Official for Embezzlement
A senior Ukrainian Defence Ministry official has been detained over allegations he embezzled $40 million relating to an artillery shells contract, CNN reports.
Putin Quietly Signals He Is Open to a Cease-Fire
New York Times: “Mr. Putin has been signaling through intermediaries since at least September that he is open to a cease-fire that freezes the fighting along the current lines, far short of his ambitions to dominate Ukraine, two former senior Russian officials close to the Kremlin and American and international officials who have received the message from Mr. Putin’s envoys say.”
“In fact, Mr. Putin also sent out feelers for a cease-fire deal a year earlier, in the fall of 2022, according to American officials. That quiet overture, not previously reported, came after Ukraine routed Russia’s army in the country’s northeast. Mr. Putin indicated that he was satisfied with Russia’s captured territory and ready for an armistice, they said.”
Biden Convinced Netanyahu to Halt Hezbollah Strike
“President Biden urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to halt a pre-emptive strike against Hezbollah forces in Lebanon days after Hamas militants’ Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel, warning that such an attack could spark a wider regional war,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Israel had intelligence—which the U.S. deemed unreliable—that Hezbollah attackers were preparing to cross the border as part of a multipronged attack, pushing some of Israel’s more hawkish officials to the brink.”
South Korean Thriller Highlights Divides
“South Korean historical blockbuster 12:12: The Day starts with the assassination of a president, a killing that sets off a wave of political turmoil and leads to an all-out battle for control of the country,” Nikkei Asia reports.
“The story is based on the real-life death of President Park Chung-hee and the subsequent coup by Chun Doo-hwan (played by veteran film star Hwang Jung-min), a ruthless general who takes advantage of the post-assassination chaos.”
Gaza’s Entire Population Faces Risk of Famine
“Gaza’s entire population — more than 2.2 million people — is facing crisis or worse levels of hunger, with the risk of famine increasing every day as Israel’s ground offensive and bombardment of the enclave continues,” Axios reports.
Washington Post: How Israel pushed over a million Palestinians into a tiny corner of Gaza.
New York Times: Evidence shows Israel bombed areas where it ordered Gaza civilians to go.
How Putin’s Right-Hand Man Took Out Prigozhin
“On the tarmac of a Moscow airport in late August, Yevgeny Prigozhin waited on his Embraer Legacy 600 for a safety check to finish before it could take off. The mercenary army chief was headed home to St. Petersburg with nine others onboard. Through the delay, no one inside the cabin noticed the small explosive device slipped under the wing,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“When the jet finally left, it climbed for about 30 minutes to 28,000 feet, before the wing blew apart, sending the aircraft spiraling to the ground. All 10 people were killed, including Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner paramilitary group.”
“The assassination of the warlord was two months in the making and approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s oldest ally and confidant, an ex-spy named Nikolai Patrushev… The role of Patrushev as the driver of the plan to kill Prigozhin hasn’t been previously reported.”
U.S. and Europe Eye Russian Assets
“The Biden administration is quietly signaling new support for seizing more than $300 billion in Russian central bank assets stashed in Western nations, and has begun urgent discussions with allies about using the funds to aid Ukraine’s war effort at a moment when financial support is waning,” the New York Times reports.
Associated Press: Biden set to sign executive order aimed at financial facilitators of Russian defense industry.
U.S. and China Military Leaders Speak
Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown, chair of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke Thursday to his Chinese counterpart.
Axios: “It was the first time in more than a year that the countries’ military leaders spoke — and comes more than a month after President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to resume high-level military-to-military communications.”
Fiona Hill Says Putin Has Trump’s Number
Former White House Russia expert Fiona Hill said that Vladimir Putin has had Donald Trump’s “number for some time… knows how to manipulate him” and still sees him “as an asset,” The Guardian reports.
Said Hill: “That’s literally his trump card.”
She added: “The anticipation that Trump’s going to come back is something for Putin of a boon… he can play with that. He can use it as kind of a warning… scare the Ukrainians, the Europeans, the rest of the world. Putin is pretty confident, given his experiences with Trump in the past, that Trump will be quick to try to resolve the war in Ukraine in his favor.”
Gazans Starting to Blame Hamas for Wartime Suffering
Wall Street Journal: “The overwhelming majority of Palestinians blame Israel for the death, destruction and dislocation caused by the war. Yet many Gazans say that Hamas is also responsible for the suffering, and that those voices are getting louder.”
Hamas Rejects Israeli Bid to Revive Hostage Talks
“Hamas rejected an Israeli offer to stop fighting for one week in exchange for dozens of hostages, saying the group wouldn’t discuss releasing their Israeli captives until a cease-fire first goes into effect,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Meanwhile, the AP reports the Israeli military said it had uncovered a major Hamas command center in the heart of Gaza City.
‘They’ve Left Me Behind’
Paul Whelan, an American who’s been imprisoned in Russia for 5 years on espionage charges that both he and the U.S. government dismiss as baseless, has said it’s “unfathomable” that the Biden administration has “left me behind” while other Americans have been freed in prisoner swaps, CBS News reports.
Schumer Worries Trump Will Sink Ukraine Aid
“Chuck Schumer sees a major threat to the fate of any future deal to pair stricter border policy with billions of dollars in foreign aid: Donald Trump,” Politico reports.
“Schumer said he expects roughly five Senate Republicans to vote for a deal no matter what, 15 to vote against it no matter what, and that the rest could all be swayed by Trump as the presidential primary formally kicks off next month.”
Said Schumer: “He is a huge political force in that party. And the question is … will they do the right thing, even though they know that Donald Trump will in a nasty, vicious way, attack them?”
U.S. Makes Prisoner Swap with Venezuela
“The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro plans to release up to 36 people, including up to 12 Americans, in exchange for the release by the U.S. government of a Maduro ally,” Reuters reports.
Mark Penn’s Polling Is Driving Coverage of Israel
Semafor: “In a wave of polling about American views on Israel, and its war in Gaza, the Harris poll has stood out for the sheer number of hot-button questions it asks, and for the dramatic results. The questions, piped straight from the news cycle, make for shock answers that drive coverage around the globe, from The New York Post to the Jerusalem Post.”
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