{"id":17121,"date":"2023-11-14T15:21:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T14:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/?p=17121"},"modified":"2023-11-14T15:21:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T14:21:07","slug":"blinken-rebuffs-arab-states-push-for-immediate-gaza-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/blinken-rebuffs-arab-states-push-for-immediate-gaza-ceasefire\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken rebuffs Arab states\u2019 push for immediate Gaza ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pakistan-today_logo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17122\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pakistan-today_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"35\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>04.11.2023<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arab leaders have urged an immediate ceasefire in Israel\u2019s military offensive in Gaza, pressing US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to convince Israel, but the top US diplomat said such a halt right now would only allow Hamas to regroup and attack Israel again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a rare public disagreement at a news conference in Amman, foreign ministers of Jordan and Egypt, standing alongside Blinken, repeatedly pushed for a cessation of hostilities, saying the death of thousands of civilians could not be justified as self-defence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA ceasefire now would simply leave Hamas in place, able to regroup and repeat what it did on October 7,\u201d Blinken said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNo nation, none of us would accept that \u2026 So it is important to reaffirm Israel\u2019s right and its obligation to defend itself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Middle East powers should maintain their push to de-escalate the region through trade and economic ties despite the Gaza conflict, a senior United Arab Emirates official has said, AFP reports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to UAE presidential adviser Anwar Gargash, countries should maintain that strategy even though the conflict is sending shockwaves through the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNational actors are basically trying to use economics as a way to de-escalate tension,\u201d Gargash told the World Policy Conference in Abu Dhabi. \u201cI think there is no reason why we should also veer away from that course of action.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He added: \u201cI think the other message is also [that] national plans have to move on. I don\u2019t think that national plans have to be on pause, because there will always be a major regional issue that will surprise us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The article was published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pakistantoday.com.pk\/2023\/11\/04\/blinken-rebuffs-arab-states-push-for-immediate-gaza-ceasefire\/\">Pakistan Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>04.11.2023 Arab leaders have urged an immediate ceasefire in Israel\u2019s military offensive in Gaza, pressing US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to convince Israel, but the top US diplomat said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-17121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-review","tag-154"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}