Blinken’s Latest Middle East Mission Shows More Labor Than Payoff

  • “All of this is a work in progress,” Blinken says on last stop
  • US pressure on Israel over humanitarian pauses so far failing
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After stopping in five cities in four days in his latest Middle East mission, the best a tired-looking Antony Blinken could say about the results was that “all of this is a work in progress.”

Judging from the outward results of the US secretary of state’s second marathon trip through the region in the less than a month since Israel’s latest war with Hamas began, there was more labor than payoff.