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- Fox News
Netanyahu expands scope of planned Gaza takeover, says Israel has 'no choice but to finish the job'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his security cabinet's plan to take over Gaza is more expansive than previously announced, arguing on Monday that Israel "has no choice but to finish the job and complete the defeat of Hamas." Netanyahu's office originally announced the takeover on Friday, but he now says the operations will include not only Gaza City but also in the "central camps" and Muwasi. The latter areas are home to well over 500,000 people. The Israeli prime minister says he has spoken with President Donald Trump about the plan and says he thanked him for America's "steadfast support." "Our goal is not to occupy Gaza, our goal is to free Gaza," Netanyahu said Monday. His office says the goals behind the takeover are to fully root out Hamas everywhere in Gaza before stabilizing the region and eventually handing leadership off to friendly Arab forces opposed to Hamas. The Security Cabinet's Friday announcement said it adopted, by vote, five principles for concluding the war which include: the disarming of Hamas, the return of all hostages – living and deceased – the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip, Israeli security control in the Gaza Strip, and the establishment of an alternative civil administration that is neither Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority. The plan gives the green light to Defense Minister Israel Katz to call up over 400,000 military reservists to carry out the operation until November 30. News of the operation comes as many of Israel's longtime allies have announced plans to recognize a Palestinian state. France announced such willingness earlier this year, while the United Kingdom and Canada followed over the past two weeks. Australia was the latest country to do so on Sunday. "Australia will recognize the right of the Palestinian people to a state of their own, predicated on the commitments Australia has received from the Palestinian Authority," Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said, referring to the governing entity of the Palestinian areas of the West Bank. Those commitments, he said, included the demilitarization of Gaza and the holding of elections – with no role for Hamas in a Palestinian government. Australia has designated Hamas a terrorist entity and Albanese repeated Monday his government's calls for the group to return Israeli hostages held since the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre. "A two-state solution is humanity's best hope to break the cycle of violence in the Middle East and to bring an end to the conflict, suffering and starvation in Gaza," Albanese said. The prime minister said the situation there "has gone beyond the world's worst fears." He accused the Israeli government of continuing "to defy international law and deny sufficient aid, food and water to desperate people, including children." Meanwhile, the U.S. has continued to defend Israel against accusations of genocide at the United Nations. Other rival nations on the U.N. Security Council have been all too willing to criticize Israel, however, with China condemning the situation in Gaza as alleged "collective punishment," and Russia calling it a "reckless intensification of hostilities" at a security meeting on Sunday.
New York Times
4 minutes ago
- New York Times
Is It a Tax, or a Payoff?
Andrew here. President Trump has made deals with Nvidia and AMD to take 15 percent of their A.I. chip sales to China. It is a surprising new twist in the narrative around national security and tariffs. Depending on your perspective, this is a new form of industrial policy or some form of extortion. What do you think? Let us know. Also on Monday: I discuss on 'The Daily' why the markets have held up better than expected as higher tariffs go into effect — and how C.E.O.s are reacting. The Trump chip commission As President Trump has waged trade wars around the globe, he has said that his goal is to establish American superiority in international commerce and in key areas like artificial intelligence. But news that his administration struck a deal in which Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices agreed to pay the U.S. 15 percent of what they make in selling A.I. chips to China in exchange for export licenses raises key questions. What is Trump's actual end goal when it comes to trade? And is his approach putting Washington's lead in A.I. — and national security — at risk? The TL;DR: Nvidia's C.E.O., Jensen Huang, met with Trump at the White House on Wednesday and agreed to fork over a portion of sales of H20 processors; the Commerce Department granted the licenses two days later, The Times reports. (AMD reached a similar agreement for its MI308 chip.) Huang had called for Nvidia to be allowed to do more business with China, warning that Chinese rivals like Huawei would otherwise take market share. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Washington Post
4 minutes ago
- Washington Post
How to fix D.C.'s housing crisis — and ensure rent is paid
Courtney Battle is executive director of the Housing&. Washington is weathering a housing crisis. The capital city has one of the highest mountains of unpaid rent in the country: $147 million is predicted to go unpaid in 2025 alone, which would represent a 1,236 percent increase since 2020. And that amount continues to climb. Combined with lingering financial deficits exacerbated by pandemic-era moratoriums on eviction, the District fears that much of its affordable housing — more than 20,000 units of which are already at risk of foreclosure — might soon disappear. Yet Washington should be well-suited to mitigate both problems. Affordable housing in D.C. is legally required to be rented at below-market rates. And the city has consistently funded its affordable housing war chest, the Housing Production Trust Fund, which provides low-interest loans to subsidize affordable housing. So why is this market continuing to crumble — and why are renters struggling so badly to pay rent? The likely, yet largely ignored, answer: Washington's flawed housing court and policies. Permits for new multifamily housing in the District are down to their lowest rates in over a decade, owing in part to a lethargic housing court and regulations that increase uncertainty in the market. The court has yet to recover from the pandemic: Landlord-tenant cases in D.C. regularly take over a year to conclude, up from three to five months before the pandemic. The result is an ever-increasing backlog of more than 6,000 cases. This is more than a resource issue: It's a question of policy. Under D.C. law, judges don't have discretion to decide whether a technical issue warrants dismissal in some cases, worsening the backlog. Waiting periods for hearings are weeks slower than in neighboring states. Notice procedures for evictions are similarly more cumbersome, requiring process servers instead of notice through the mail or posting on the door. These policy obstacles delay the resolution of housing disputes, in turn delaying rent payment. Washington's reputation of high rent delinquencies has predictably scared away business. WinnCompanies, a property manager, told the D.C. Council's housing committee that only 2 percent of its units nationwide are in D.C., but they account for 28 percent of its unpaid rent. Some property management companies have even tried to reduce this mass of unpaid rent through rent-forgiveness programs. One large provider of affordable units in the region offered its tenants a clean slate: Start paying going forward, and it will clear away your debt. Despite this method of last resort working elsewhere, less than 5 percent of D.C. tenants accepted the offer. Without any kind of a stick, even the largest carrots do not work. This is why Washington must revamp its housing policy to curb rent nonpayment and incentivize housing development. Luckily, this opportunity is on the table: The council is set to vote on Democratic Mayor Muriel E. Bowser's Rental Act, which, if passed, would rebalance D.C.'s housing ecosystem. First, the bill would make the housing court more efficient. It would provide judges with more discretion so that cases do not have to be refiled repeatedly. It also would shorten the notice period for evictions and make this process less burdensome. These changes would help reduce the time it takes for a case to move through housing court. Second, the bill would reform the District's Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act, which gives tenants the chance to buy their apartment building when it goes up for sale or transfer their purchase rights to outside housing providers. Although law has provided leverage to tenants to improve their buildings upon sale, its rigidity dissuades investment in new affordable and market-rate housing projects. This opportunity to purchase is hardly ever used by tenants in new buildings. Nintey-six percent of tenant association formations under the purchasing law occurred in properties built before 1978. New buildings tend to be more expensive and have wealthier tenants, therefore eliminating the need for an act that prevents displacement. The bill would exempt buildings less than 25 years old as well as those that already have affordability requirements, expanding housing in D.C. without compromising the ability of tenants at risk of displacement to benefit from the sale of their building. To be clear, D.C.'s affording housing crisis primarily disadvantages tenants. The foreclosure of an affordable property almost always results in the end of that building's legal requirement to maintain affordability. Affordable housing providers who do manage to stay afloat are often forced to reallocate the cash flow that would've been used to maintain and improve buildings toward paying the building's mortgage , which is not being covered by the expected rent. This all results in higher rents and poorer living conditions for vulnerable residents. We cannot continue to ignore Washington's mounting housing crisis. To both reduce rental delinquencies and preserve affordable housing in D.C., the city must fix its broken housing policies.
