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India-Middle East-Europe Economic corridor possible reason for Hamas’ attack on Israel: Biden
Joe Biden said that his analysis was based on instinct.
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US President Joe Biden said on October 26 that Hamas launched the terrorist attack on Israel to sabotage the India-Middle East-Europe Economic corridor announced during the G-20 Summit in Delhi last September. However, Biden at the same said that he did not have any proof of it.
His analysis was on his instinct, he clarified at a joint press conference with visiting Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese at the White House. “I’m convinced of the reasons Hamas attacked when they did, and I have no proof of this, just my instinct tells me, is because of the progress we were making towards regional integration for Israel, and regional integration overall. We cannot leave that work behind,” Biden said
Less than a week ago, he had also mentioned the corridor as the reason for the Palestinian attack on Israel. Biden further said that in the past few weeks, he had spoken to leaders in the region, including King Abdullah of Jordan, President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.
The conversations were about making sure there was real hope in the region for a better future about the need to work towards greater integration for Israel while insisting that the aspirations of the Palestinian people will be part, will be part of that future as well.
Speculated to be an alternative to China’s Belt Initiative which was announced jointly by the US, India, Saudi Arabia, the USE, France, Germany, Italy and the European Union on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit, the corridor visualises an Eastern route connecting India to the Gulf region and a northern one linking the Gulf region to Europe.
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