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Violence upends Biden administration's IsraelPalestinian outlook The surge in Israeli-Palestinian violence has flummoxed the Biden administration in its first four months as it attempts to craft a more durable and fairer Middle East policy
The surge in Israeli-Palestinian violence has flummoxed the Biden administration in its first four months as it attempts to craft a Middle East policy it believes will be more durable and fairer than that of its predecessor. Its early hesitation to wade more deeply into efforts to resolve the decades-long conflict has created a leadership vacuum that is exacerbated by political uncertainty in Israel and the Palestinian Authority, each of which is clamouring
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Israelis and Palestinians alike have denounced the Biden administration's call for all sides to step back following clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians in east Jerusalem that escalated into rocket attacks on Israel from the Hamascontrolled Gaza Strip and retaliatory strikes from Israel's military. The US State Department message is not acceptable to me, Israel's ambassador to the United States, Gilad Erdan, said on Twitter. It is impossible to put in the same message statements by Israeli leaders who call for calm alongside instigators and terrorist organizations that launch missiles and rockets. On the Palestinian side, there is frustration that the U.S. has slowwalked a U.N. Security Council statement that it sees as too unfavorable to Israel. The continued paralysis of the Security Council on the situation in Palestine is unacceptable, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, said Tuesday...