(August 20, 2024 / JNS)
With his hands clasped, Israeli President Isaac Herzog detailed “ongoing terror attacks by Palestinian terrorists” in the prior 24 hours, during a Tel Aviv press conference alongside U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday. Those included the murder of Gideon Perry, 38, “simply because he’s a Jew and an Israeli,” and a suicide bomber’s attempt to carry out a major attack in Tel Aviv, Herzog said.
Blinken, who was visiting the Jewish state for the ninth time since Oct. 7, stood by solemnly, shifting his weight, with one hand over the other. “This is the way we are living these days,” Herzog said. “We are surrounded by terror from the four corners of the Earth, and we are fighting back as a resilient and strong nation.”
When it was time for the U.S. envoy to speak, Blinken said it was a “decisive moment,” during which he was part of “an intensive diplomatic effort” on U.S. President Joe Biden’s “instructions to try to get this agreement to the line and, ultimately, over the line.”
But though Blinken acknowledged the “fraught moment,” during which there is “deep concern” about an Iranian attack, the U.S. diplomat appeared to suggest that the attempted attack on Tel Aviv and the other provocations that Herzog had cited minutes earlier did not amount to “escalation.”
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With his hands clasped, Israeli President Isaac Herzog detailed “ongoing terror attacks by Palestinian terrorists” in the prior 24 hours, during a Tel Aviv press conference alongside U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday. Those included the murder of Gideon Perry, 38, “simply because he’s a Jew and an Israeli,” and a suicide bomber’s attempt to carry out a major attack in Tel Aviv, Herzog said.
Blinken, who was visiting the Jewish state for the ninth time since Oct. 7, stood by solemnly, shifting his weight, with one hand over the other. “This is the way we are living these days,” Herzog said. “We are surrounded by terror from the four corners of the Earth, and we are fighting back as a resilient and strong nation.”
When it was time for the U.S. envoy to speak, Blinken said it was a “decisive moment,” during which he was part of “an intensive diplomatic effort” on U.S. President Joe Biden’s “instructions to try to get this agreement to the line and, ultimately, over the line.”
But though Blinken acknowledged the “fraught moment,” during which there is “deep concern” about an Iranian attack, the U.S. diplomat appeared to suggest that the attempted attack on Tel Aviv and the other provocations that Herzog had cited minutes earlier did not amount to “escalation.”
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“We’re not going to parse the secretary’s words,” a U.S. State Department spokesperson told JNS.
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