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  • U.S. Presses To End The War In Gaza

    On May 31, in a formal statement at the White House, U.S. President Joseph Biden outlined what he termed an Israeli proposal for a three-phased roadmap toward a permanent end of hostilities in the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Appearing to pressure both Israeli and Hamas leaders to back the roadmap fully, the Biden statement stressed that the plan, if fully agreed and implemented, meets the core demands of both sides and should be accepted. The proposal appeared to reflect the results of recent intensive negotiations between the United States, Qatar, and Egypt, on new initiatives to break the logjams that have blocked Israel-Hamas agreement on another temporary ceasefire and further hostage releases. The U.S. and some Arab officials have attributed the impasse mostly to Hamas’ demand for a complete end to Israel’s offensive in Gaza as a condition for freeing remaining Israeli hostages.

  • The U.S. Needs a New Purpose in the Middle East

    The United States had actually been successful in the region throughout the Cold War: U.S. diplomatic, economic, and military power prevented disruption to the flow of oil, helped Israel stave off threats to its security, and prevented the Soviet Union, for as long as it existed, from trying to dominate the region. There were setbacks and significant—mostly moral—costs given U.S. support for the Middle Eastern authoritarians and complicity in the ongoing statelessness of Palestinians. But from the perspective of the United States’ elected leaders, officials, foreign-policy analysts, and other elites, the price was worth paying.

  • U.S. concerned about Israel threat to collapse Palestinian economy

    Even as it urges greater Israeli restraint in Gaza and the reopening of the Rafah border crossing for humanitarian aid, the United States is expressing growing concern about the potential economic collapse of the Palestinian Authority and the instability that would cause in the West Bank and ultimately Israel, amid threats by an ultra-nationalist Israeli minister to cut off Palestinian banks from the Israeli financial system.

  • U.S. Conducts Large-Scale Logistics Exercise With Saudi, Emirati Partners

    The U.S. Marine Corps-led Native Fury 24 — an exercise that's in its ninth iteration this year — put combined, joint interoperability to the test through a series of complex logistics maneuvers, dynamic combat training evolutions, and convoys spanning more than 1,000 miles across two countries. More than 600 Marines, soldiers, sailors and airmen and took part in Native Fury 24 alongside their partner nation counterparts. This year marked the first time the exercise has featured bilateral operations with both the Royal Saudi Armed Forces and United Arab Emirates Armed Forces.

  • At Gulf Cooperation Council, U.S. Participates in Maritime, Missile Defense Working Groups

    The U.S. last participated in talks with the GCC in February 2023. During today's discussions, representatives from the Joint Staff, U.S. Central Command, Naval Forces Central Command, Air Forces Central Command, the Missile Defense Agency, and the Defense Security Cooperation Agency are participating in two working groups, including one on maritime security and the other on air and missile defense.

  • U.S. Says Historic Israel-Saudi Normalization Deal Within Reach but Israel Might Balk

    “The Saudis have been clear that [normalization] would require calm in Gaza and it would require a credible pathway to a Palestinian state,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday. “It may well be that in this moment Israel isn’t able or willing to proceed down that pathway.”

  • U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Lenderking’s Travel to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman

    U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking is traveling to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman this week to continue discussions with partners regarding the peace process in Yemen and an immediate end to the reckless Houthi attacks in the Red Sea and surrounding waterways.  The Houthis’ continued attacks threaten progress toward achieving a durable resolution to the conflict in Yemen and obstruct the delivery of humanitarian assistance to Yemenis and people in need across the region.

  • Powering Today’s Energy Transition: U.S.-Saudi ‘Trade Talks’ Focus on Hydrogen Horizons

    The Trade Talks series is designed in support of the 2022 U.S.-Saudi Arabia Commercial Partnership Shared Work Plan that aims to guide cooperation between the U.S. Department of Commerce and Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Commerce in four key areas: the green economy, strengthening the role of women and small medium enterprises (SMEs), promoting innovation, and increasing two-way investment. These areas were selected based on joint U.S. and Saudi goals in support of open, prosperous markets and inclusive growth.

  • U.S. military completes temporary pier off Gaza; deliveries to start within days

    The U.S. Army has completed a temporary pier on a Gazan beach; trucks should begin hauling away the first 500 tons of aid for civilians within days, with thousands more tons in the pipeline, Pentagon officials said Thursday.

  • U.S. weapons may have been used in ways “inconsistent” with international law in Gaza, U.S. assessment says

    The report states that though there are allegations that Israel violated international humanitarian law during the period covered by the report, Jan. 1, 2023 through late April of this year, the U.S. doesn't have "complete information" on whether U.S. weapons were used in those actions. Its authors cite the difficulty of determining facts on the ground in an active war zone as well as Hamas's use of civilian infrastructure for military purposes.