Book Description
Soursop Juice Welcome back, friends and loyal supporters of Armory Reborn! Hope you are all healthy, happy and enthusiastic. President Joko Widodo's visit to meet US President Joe Biden in Washington on November 13, 2023, has resulted in several new agreements. Marking a historic new phase in bilateral relations between the two countries, the two leaders upgraded US-Indonesia relations to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. Biden thanked Jokowi for Indonesia's leadership in ASEAN and underscored the US commitment to deepen cooperation in Southeast Asia and with Indonesia. Armory Reborn reviews various important aspects of Jokowi's visit, which also carries a message from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation regarding the Palestinian issue. When this foreword was written, a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel was already in effect in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. The ceasefire was realized after a military confrontation between the Islamist Hamas faction and the Israeli military, which claimed the lives of more than 14,000 civilians in Gaza. In this regard, Armory Reborn presents several scenarios about the future of the Gaza Strip, after the military confrontation (temporarily) ends. The Gaza issue certainly cannot be separated from the peace negotiation process between Palestine and Israel. Many complex issues relate to the future of Gaza and Palestine. The existence of the Islamist Hamas faction and the nationalist Fatah faction, which have difficulty uniting within the Palestinian Authority, has made the peace process stall. Israel is taking advantage of the split Palestinian leadership to continue its territorial expansion agenda in the West Bank, which according to international law is the territory of the Palestinian Authority. For those of you who are interested in aerospace technology, we provide an article about the failed launch of Starship, a spacecraft made by SpaceX. This failure occurred in the second test flight, in mid-November 2023. Starship is part of SpaceX's ambitious program, founded by Elon Musk, to send people and goods to the moon, and then to the planet Mars. We hope that Armory Reborn friends can enjoy all these articles. Satrio Arismunandar Editor in chief