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Donald
Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss Gaza peace plan at the White House
Hello and
welcome to the US politics live blog. My name is Tom Ambrose and I will be
bringing you all the latest news lines over the next hour or so.
We start
with news that Donald Trump will host Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu
at the White House on Monday, with the US president pushing a Gaza peace
proposal after a slew of western leaders embraced Palestinian statehood in
defiance of American and Israeli opposition.
In
Netanyahu’s fourth visit since Trump returned to office in January, the
right-wing Israeli leader will be looking to shore up his country’s most
important relationship as it faces growing international isolation nearly two
years into its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Reuters reported.
He can
expect a warm welcome compared to the chilly reception he received when he
spoke on Friday before the UN general assembly where many delegates walked out
in protest.
Netanyahu
went on to deliver a blistering attack on what he called a “disgraceful
decision” over the
past week by Britain, France, Canada, Australia and several other countries to
recognize Palestinian statehood, a major diplomatic shift by top US allies.
Trump,
who had criticized the recognition moves as a prize to Hamas, told Reuters on
Sunday he hopes to get Netanyahu’s agreement on a framework to end the war in
the Palestinian territory and free the remaining hostages held by Hamas.
“We’re
getting a very good response because Bibi wants to make the deal too,” Trump
said in a telephone interview, using Netanyahu’s nickname. “Everybody wants to
make the deal.”
He
credited leaders of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Jordan and Egypt for their
assistance and said the deal aims to go beyond Gaza to a broader Middle East
peace.
“It’s
called peace in the Middle East, more than Gaza. Gaza is a part of it. But it’s
peace in the Middle East,” he said.
In other
developments:
More than
100,000 federal workers are to formally resign on Tuesday, the largest such
mass event in US history, as part of a Trump administration program designed to
make sweeping cuts to the federal workforce. With Congress facing a deadline of
Tuesday to authorize more funding or spark a government shutdown, the White
House has also ordered federal agencies to draw up plans for large-scale
firings of workers if the partisan fight fails to yield a deal.
Donald
Trump has reversed course and is purportedly planning to host a bipartisan
gathering of the top four US congressional leaders at the White House on Monday
afternoon in a last-ditch effort to avoid a looming government shutdown, the
House speaker and the US president’s fellow Republican, Mike Johnson, said on
Sunday.
The
indictment of former FBI director James Comey is part of a concerted effort by
Donald Trump to “rewrite history” in his favor, a former senior White House
lawyer claimed on Sunday as he warned of more retribution to come for the
president’s political opponents.
The mayor
of New York City, Eric Adams, announced on Sunday that he was abandoning his
faltering bid to win re-election, just over a month before election day. Adams,
who was trailing in the polls, was elected as a Democrat but ran for
re-election as an independent after he was indicted on federal corruption
charges, which were then dropped by the Trump administration in exchange for
his cooperation on immigration raids.
Children,
including the very young, have been spending weeks or months in an Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention facility in a remote part of Texas
where outside monitors have heard accounts of shortages of clean drinking
water, chronic sleep deprivation and kids struggling for hygiene supplies and
prompt medical attention, as revealed in a stark new court filing.
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