Biden: “I don’t think we need a wider war in the Middle East"

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Biden: 'I don’t think we need a wider war in the Middle East' EL PAÍS USA EDITION

Dear readers,‌ ‌ Joe Biden said this week that he knows how Washington will respond to the deaths of three U.S. military personnel in a drone attack on a base in Jordan, but the president faces a problem that previous U.S. administrations have had to navigate during conflicts in the Middle East: how to respond forcefully enough to prevent more attacks, but not to the point of triggering an escalation of unpredictable consequences. The White House needs to calibrate its response very carefully at a time when the spotlight is already on its 30,000 military personnel in the region, amid a conflict that has extended beyond the war between Israel and Hamas and threatens to drag other powers into the arena. ‌ Meanwhile, amid the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, EL PAÍS spoke to health workers struggling to meet the needs of the population in the Strip. The death toll among Palestinians now stands at over 26,000 people, and the WHO reports only seven of the 24 hospitals in northern Gaza remain open, working with insufficient staff, equipment, and fuel, while of the 12 medical centers in the south, only seven are still partially functioning. “We don’t have a sense of being alive. We are just machines trying to make the days go by one by one,” says a doctor with Médecins Sans Frontières. ‌ We also spoke to NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, who made headlines around the world last September when he finally returned to Earth after a record-setting 371 days on the International Space Station, where he was stranded due to a breakdown in the cooling system of the Russian Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft due to bring him home. “When I was there, every day, I missed my family and I missed the house. But now that I’m here — four months after returning — at least once a week, I think that I would like to be there again for at least a few hours, to enjoy the view, to enjoy floating.” We hope you enjoy this selection of stories. Thanks for reading.

US military deployment becomes Joe Biden’s weak point in the Middle East crisis The president, who is trying to avoid escalation in a region where 30,000 U.S. troops are stationed, says he has already decided how to respond to the attack on a base in Jordan

Heather Conley: ‘Europe should prepare itself for Trump’s return as it would for a storm’ The head of the U.S. think tank GMF calls for a new generation of leaders in Israel and Palestine and calls Western doubts over aid to Ukraine ‘myopic’

A message from Gaza’s hospitals: ‘This isn’t a movie, we’re losing patients every minute’ Only 14 of the 36 hospitals in the Strip are partially operational, according to the WHO. A Médecins Sans Frontières doctor and a medical student share their frustration at the magnitude of the emergency

‘They treat us like a sack of money’: The opaque network charging Gazans thousands of dollars to flee to Egypt Palestinians trying to escape the desperate situation in the Strip are charged up to $11,000 by middlemen to secure permission to cross the border at Rafah

Bukele, the iron fist leader without rival in El Salvador’s elections The president is set to be re-elected next Sunday thanks to his great popularity in the country, where he is esteemed for taking down the gangs despite the high cost to human rights

Anastasia Radina, Ukrainian politician: ‘Fighting corruption is as important as fighting Russia’ The chair of the Ukrainian Parliament’s Anti-Corruption Committee says that the battle against fraud has made society begin to become aware of this scourge. She vows that, unlike in the past, nobody who is found guilty of corruption is untouchable

An artificial meniscus and 371 days of swallowing toothpaste: Frank Rubio’s adventures in space The NASA astronaut speaks with EL PAÍS about the mission in which he broke the record for the longest stay on the International Space Station

Between jokes and discontent: How communism is winning the internet With funny memes referencing Soviet leaders and nods to Marxist aesthetics pervading online culture, young people are looking toward the communist past with a mixture of irony and curiosity

‘I should not have written ‘A Clockwork Orange’’: How Anthony Burgess came to disown his own novel A recent documentary explores the conflictive relationship between the British author and his most popular work, which became a scandalous phenomenon due to Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation

John McEnroe: ‘Nadal and Saudi Arabia? There is a phrase: money talks’ The tennis legend talks to EL PAÍS about the potential of Spanish player Carlos Alcaraz, why Novak Djokovic deserves more recognition and why the sport is ‘opening a can of worms’

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