Blinken puts pressure on Middle East
countries to contain Gaza conflict
US secretary of state Antony Blinken has urged Middle East countries to use their influence over regional actors to ensure the Gaza conflict is contained and prevent “an endless cycle of violence,” as he continued his week-long trip aimed at calming tensions.
Blinken was speaking on Saturday, after Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah group said it had fired rockets at Israel, who said it had struck a “terrorist cell” in retaliation. Hezbollah called the strikes a “preliminary response” to the killing of a senior Hamas leader in Beirut last week in an attack widely attributed to Israel
“We want to make sure that countries … [are] using their relationships with some of the actors that might be involved to keep a lid on things, to make sure that we’re not seeing the spread of conflict,” Blinken said before flying to Jordan, after meeting the leaders of Turkey and Greece.
I mean jesus fucking wept. I wonder who could use "their relationship[s] with some of the actors that might be involved to keep a lid on things" best? No. It was on the tip of my tongue but it's gone. Big place, lots of guns, big military..it'll come to me I'm sure.
Anyway, here's Bob with more news of lions telling antelopes to try and reduce hunting deaths.
...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
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