Hamas' first attack on US presidential election in the Middle East linked to Ukraine, Taiwan, and South Korea elections
Hamas' surprise attack on Israel erupted as the first election issue between the US-Republican-Democrat conflict in the Middle East, and following the upcoming elections in Taiwan and Ukraine, next year's Korean elections appear to be connected to the prelude to the US presidential election in November.
Hamas Palestinian militants, who launched a surprise attack on Israel's hard-line conservative peace policy based on strength, put to the test on the 7th an ambitious diplomatic strategy in the Biden administration's months-long design of a new Middle East for a new era.
“Sadly, American taxpayer dollars helped fund these attacks, and many reports say they come from the Biden administration,” former Republican President Donald Trump said in a statement.
NYT said, “In the short term, Biden’s sweeping aspirations will have to take a backseat in managing the conflict currently engulfing Israel and the Gaza Strip,” and added, “The Republican Party, led by former President Trump, believes the administration’s recent hostage deal with Iran is an action by Hamas.” and claimed that no U.S. taxpayer dollars were involved in the hostage deal.
The Biden administration announced on the 7th that it signed the release of $6 billion in Iranian oil payments frozen in Korea and decided to store them in a Qatari bank that can only be used for humanitarian purposes.
On the 7th, shortly after White House National Security Advisor Sullivan warned, "I emphasize 'for now' because everything can change," the Palestinian issue was hastily brought back to the center after years of being largely off the global agenda.
The Biden administration's strategy was to build a broad alliance against Iran and control China's further advancement into the Middle East by strengthening the Saudi-American alliance and establishing diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel. However, there is a possibility of Iran's role in Hamas' surprise attack on Jerusalem. emerged quickly.
Crown Prince Mohammed, the Saudi strongman at the center of diplomatic strategy, approached the benefits of a mutual defense treaty with the United States and cooperation on civil nuclear development, while Israeli hardliner Prime Minister Netanyahu said normalizing relations with Arab powers would strengthen Israel's position in the region. The approach was strengthened, and Hamas put the brakes on it.
The Saudi royal family directly condemned the attack, saying on Did not do it.
“Saudi Arabia has long warned of the risk of an explosion of the situation due to the continued occupation and deprivation of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people,” a Saudi Foreign Ministry statement said.
“It is highly likely that this attack originated from Iran and Lebanon, which are Hezbollah’s bases,” John Hannah, a senior fellow at the American Jewish National Security Institute and a former security adviser to right-wing Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, told the NYT.
Citing Iran's ISNA news agency, Reuters said Yahya Rahim Safavi, military advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader, congratulated the attack by Palestinian fighters that day and said, "We will stand by the Palestinian fighters until Palestine and Jerusalem are liberated."
AFP reported that Ukraine's President Zelenskyy supported a "retaliatory counterattack" in a video statement on the 7th, saying, "We condemn the Hamas attack, which was the direct trigger of the military conflict, as terrorism," and "Israel has the right to defend itself."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced strong retaliation on the 8th, saying, "We will reduce to ruins everywhere Hamas is in the evil city, everywhere Hamas is hiding, and everywhere Hamas is active."
President Zelensky's five-year term ends in May next year, and this year's general election was canceled due to martial law. The U.S. Republican Party began public pressure on next year's presidential election, and it was pointed out that 'elections during war will lead to Zelensky's re-election.'
The NYT said, “President Zelenskyy favors an election, but only if international monitors can certify the election as free, fair and inclusive, and outlined several obstacles to holding a vote,” adding, “Political opponents said that before the Russian invasion, “We are broader in our boycott of the elections scheduled for March or April next year and say the war is causing too much chaos for voting to take place properly,” he said on the 5th.
The NYT said, “Neither the Biden administration nor European governments supporting Ukraine militarily have publicly weighed in on the election, but the idea was mooted when Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said the country should go ahead with the vote despite the war. “It received more attention,” he said.
During a visit to Ukraine in August, the Republican chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee publicly called for elections, saying, "We have to do two things at the same time," and "I want free and fair elections even when this country is under attack."
The United States and China, which were in conflict with Taiwan, will hold a summit in November ahead of Taiwan's presidential election in January next year.
Daniel Russell, former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, told the Washington Post on the 5th about the summit, “Both leaders are trying to avoid an international crisis that could interfere with domestic issues.”
South Korea will hold a general election in April next year, and former national security adviser John Bolton, a hardliner in the Republican Party, expressed his support for the Yoon Seok-yeol government through the Voice of America (VOA), saying, “I wish the Yoon Seok-yeol government good luck. “I know very well how difficult the situation is politically in Korea, but I think we are doing the right thing,” he revealed on the 3rd.
In an interview, Advisor Bolton said of the Korea-U.S.-Japan alliance, “It will be a good signal for the people of Taiwan, who have recently been most at risk, and this means that Korea’s role will inevitably grow.” “An example is Korea’s recent sale of weapons and ammunition needed by Poland due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” he said.
He continued, “I don’t think the Biden administration has much of a policy toward North Korea,” and added, “North Korea has become more dependent on China and has now become a very important country for Russia. (omitted) Not only will it improve North Korea's status, but it is of course dangerous for the Korean Peninsula and all of us. So, I think this shows how the mutual relations between China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran should be considered in our strategic sense,” he said.
“We have to apply pressure,” he said. “I don’t think the North Korean regime has the strength to last long,” he said. “I don’t think North Korea really needs a new regime once the authoritarian regime starts to collapse and people start to move out. “We need unification,” he said.