It is not where the Biden administration wants to be less than two weeks before the U.S. presidential election.
Israeli attacks with American-made bombs continue to wipe out Palestinian families in Gaza. The war in Lebanon is expanding. And Israel and Iran’s exchanges of direct attacks could escalate, following Israeli airstrikes on Iranian military sites early Saturday.
With many progressive voters and Arab and Muslim Americans in battleground states furious at U.S. President Joe Biden for his unwavering support of Israel’s offensives since the devastating Hamas assault last year, U.S. officials had been desperate for some way to prod the Middle East toward stability.
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