Beltway Insider: Trump Backs Israel, Government Shut Down, Japan PM, England Church, Jane Goodall
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President Trump and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week presented Palestinian leaders with a 20-point peace plan that has widely been considered as the last peaceful effort to end the catastrophic bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
The President's job approval rating, according to Gallup featured in The New York Times for the period ending October 5, 2025, of those polled who approve of his effectiveness as President remained consistent at 40% and those who disapprove of his effectiveness as president remained consistent at 56%. A slight 3% of the population polled have no opinion. Ratings are calculated weekly.
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Trump Meets with Israel's Netanyahu Back Peace Plan
President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have set in place a 20 point peace deal, and presented it to Palestinian leadership, with the understanding that if Hamas rejected the deal, Netanyahu would have the full backing of the United States in whatever measures they choose to implement.
With Trump stepping away from the sidelines and into the fray, Hamas responded indicating that the remaining hostages would be released. And were willing to accept the deal, with some caveats.
"On Friday, Hamas said it was ready to release all the remaining Israeli hostages, a response that Mr. Trump extolled while also demanding that Israel stop bombing Gaza. The president acknowledged that the details would need to be worked out. Israeli officials say the military had been told to shift to defensive operations," The New York Times reported.
Trump has also clarified his viewpoints on Israel and its need to stop the bombing raids, and to allow aid to enter the Gaza Strip. As world leaders, nations, and citizens, viewpoint has shifted to sympathy for the Palestinians who are suffering and dying due to food scarcity and famine, as Israel has withheld aid to much of the Gaza Strip.
A critical and possible derailing point in the peace plan is the disarming of Palestinians, which is non-negotiable to Netanyahu. Even as amnesty will be offered to any Gazan who turns in his weapons, a deep lack of trust and generational hatred between the two nations will ultimately cause each to view the other through a lens of cynicism and suspicion.
Trump's Plan for Post War Gaza
One aspect of the peace plan is the rebuilding of the Gaza strip, and now as Trump has centered himself as the chief organizer of the rebuilding and redevelopment plan, he will stand to increase his holdings through the rebuilding of a nation that has been catastrophically destroyed.
"Mr. Trump has long remarked on the potential value of the waterfront property of Gaza, and he did so again on Monday, lamenting the fact that Israel allowed the Palestinians to have control of the land. "As a real estate person, I mean, they gave up the ocean," he said, adding: "They gave up the ocean. I said, 'Who would do this deal?,'" The New York Times reported.
Mr. Trump is not alone on this board of post war Gaza redevelopment, as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, is also involved. Part of the post war plan allows Israel to maintain a buffer zone and rejects any effort by the Palestinians to allow Hamas to be active in governing post war Gaza.
With the post war Gaza vision crystallizing, what remains once the famine is brought under control and some stability is returned to the region, is an image of a 21st century post war city, with modern housing, contemporary infrastructure, state of the art hospitals and communications, essentially an enviable ocean front city.
And with the possibility of Mr. Trump and global partners securing the contracts to rebuild, the post war Gaza Strip will be functional, modern, and mirror the region's architecture.
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Government Shut Down Continues
The federal government shut down this week. At 12:01 Wednesday morning, all unnecessary workers were furloughed, and services were considered closed until further notice.
Even as lawmakers were unable to find common ground, and despite faced with widespread layoffs across the entire government, not simply in the nations capital, both democrats and republicans remained cemented in their efforts to pass a budget that held little compromise.
As the deadline for the government shutdown drew closer, each party blocked the stopgap efforts, bills that would keep the government funded for six weeks to avoid the shutdown. The problem with these stopgap bills, is that they are often loaded with "pork" unnecessary funding hidden as the crunch draws closer and the bill is likely to pass.
While lawmakers are razor focused on party politics, unfortunately it is the citizen who bears the brunt of the shutdown. The citizen who is furlough, and in this administration the unpredictability of Mr. Trump in downsizing, the furloughed citizen could become permanently unemployed.
"Social Security and Medicare benefits, which are considered "mandatory" spending, will keep flowing. While most federal workers are likely to be furloughed, those designated as "excepted," such as active-duty troops, air traffic controllers and federal law enforcement officers, stay on the job, even though they cannot be paid for that work until after the shutdown is over," The New York Times reported.
A 2019 shutdown, also under the Trump Administration lasted 34 days; it is possible because of the deep divide among lawmakers of both houses, and an unwillingness to negotiate, this shutdown could be lengthy.
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Japan Elects First Female Prime Minister
Japan is making history as the deeply patriarchal culture has elected its first female Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hardline conservative elected by the ruling democratic party.
"She is poised to become prime minister later this month, succeeding Shigeru Ishiba, who last month announced he would step down after less than a year in the role, following two crushing parliamentary defeats that cost the long-governing ruling LDP its coalition majority in both legislative chambers. She would be the fourth prime minister in five years," The Washington Post reported.
Takaichi is set to take the lead the fourth largest economy in the world, at a time of political instability in the Asian nation. As Japan has had four prime minister's in five years, and more so as China continues its determined effort to destabilize the region and capitalize on the instability to increase its worldwide dominance.
While rising as a leader in the party, Takaichi, a former news broadcaster turned politicians, also had a varied path in life, which appealed to many as she represents the antithesis of the political leadership the nation has had over the last decades.
She empathizes a Japan First political position, and believes her nation is well equipped to compete on a global scale and create more economic stability throughout the country. And as it is throughout the world the economy is the number one consideration of voters, whether in the United States or Japan. Building an economy that exploits their greatest resources, increasing wages, and has openly criticized the tariff deal Japanese leaders made with Donald Trump.
"Takaichi, who has invoked former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher as her role model, has shattered the highest glass ceiling of public office in Japan by becoming the first female leader of the male-dominated and patriarchal Asian nation," The Washington Post reported.
Anglican Church of England Elects First Female Head
In one of the most obvious signs of a more modern England, London Bishop Sarah Mullally, 63, was named the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, and the first women to lead the Anglican Church of England in 1400 years.
"Archbishop-designate Mullally will succeed Justin Welby, who resigned from the position last November under pressure, after the publication of a report that said he had failed to pursue a proper investigation into claims of widespread abuse of boys and young men decades ago at Christian summer camps," The New York Times reported.
Mullally has her work cut out for her, and little time ahead of her as the Church has a mandated retirement age of 70, leaving her only six years to present her doctrines and help pave the way for the next generation. The notion of a female leading the third largest denomination, appears to be following the lead of William, Prince of Wales, the heir to the throne, who has mentioned many times of his desire to modernize the monarchy.
The Anglican Church of England is the third largest denomination in the world, following the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox churches. Mullally is now the spiritual leader of the 85 million Anglicans worldwide.
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Coronavirus Total
At the order of the President of the United States, the U.S. no longer recognizes the value of The World Health Organization. The CDC has recommended every person from age six months, including senior citizens should receive at least one shot of an updated COVID-19 vaccine, annually. The death toll from Covid-19 has dramatically decreased, as has transmission of the virus. Even as confirmed new cases continue each week, fewer are dying from the newer variants.
For the seven days ending October 5, 2025, the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases reported by the World Health Organization increased by 40,782 to 778,612,822. The total worldwide death toll increased by 564 to 7,102,195 deaths. The United States has stopped providing Covid data to the World Health Organization. (Data updated September 14, 2025, from the World Health Organization).
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Jane Goodall, Primatologist, Dies
Jane Goodall, a primatologist who spent the majority of her life studying primates, has died this week. She was 91.
Goodall, who by her own admission was only planning a vacation to Africa, when a chance encounter changed her life. At 23, Goodall was a secretary in London and did not spend her first 23 years preoccupied with the life of primates, something that would change after what was only supposed to be a vacation.
"An encounter in Nairobi with the eminent paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey altered the course of her life, setting her on an unlikely path to becoming the world's foremost primatologist. Her startling observations about chimpanzee behaviors — from making tools to making war — revolutionized not only scientific understanding of the capabilities and inner lives of our simian cousins, but also long-held notions about what it means to be human," The Washington Post reported.
Goodall perfected the long term field observation method of study, which is widely accepted as the preeminent methodology for primate study. Her efforts, however, were often hit and miss, as she had no formal education or training in the field. Some have suggested the fact that she did not have the education or prescribed methodologies of the day clouding her thought made her more able to see through a clearer lens.
And Goodall throughout her life mentioned specific errors in her early studies that she would have changed had she known. During one field study she began feeding bananas to the chimpanzees, which essentially ignited aggression among the other primates. Goodall has said, had she known she would not have used the banana reward system.
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For many field observation was the culmination of years of theoretical study, for Goodall it was her life. When she arrived in Nairobi at 23, she became fascinated with the land and animals. By chance she met the foremost scholar in primate study who was enamored by her and soon hired her as his secretary allowing her to leave her life in London and stay on in Africa.
Goodall stayed in Africa for three decades establishing a research study program that remains today. She has been the guiding voice for generations and her work with primates has revolutionized the study of primates and their relation to man.
"Following the news of her death, a slate of celebrities, politicians and organizations from around the world have mourned her loss online. "Today we have lost a true hero for the planet, an inspiration to millions, and a dear friend," actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio wrote in a lengthy Instagram tribute," People Magazine reported.
This simple girl who waited tables to save up the money to visit Africa transformed the world's view of primates and their cultures, routines, family hierarchy, and customs, and more transformed the world's view of women and field study and inspired a world of women to enter the field of primatology.
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Janet Walker is the publisher, founder, and sole owner of Haute-Lifestyle.com. A graduate of New York University, she has been covering international news through the Beltway Insider, a weekly review of the nation's top stories, for more than a decade. A general beat writer/reporter and entertainment/film critic, she is also an accomplished news/investigative news/crime reporter and submitted for Pulitzer Prize consideration "Cops Conspire to Deep Six Sex Assaults" in the Breaking News Category and was persuaded to withdraw the submission. Ms. Walker has completed five screenplays "The Six Sides of Truth," "The Assassins of Fifth Avenue," "The Wednesday Killer," "The Manhattan Project," and the sci-fi thriller "Project 13: The Last Day." She has also published "Unholy Alliances: A True Crime Story," and "Days, Times, Seasons, and Events: A Collection of Poetry & Prose," which can be purchased here. She is a member of the Los Angeles Press Club, the National Writers Union, and a member of the International Federation of Journalists.
