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Blinken’s Mideast Shuttle Diplomacy Is Just Political Theater
The Biden administration is inadvertently demonstrating that it has no sway over Israel. That bodes ill for its foreign policy generally.
In search of common ground.
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Not since Henry Kissinger in 1974 has a US secretary of state shuttled as frenetically around the Middle East as Antony Blinken does these days.
Here, in no particular order, is a partial list of Blinken’s stops in the region since Hamas went on its sadistic rampage on Oct. 7: Tel Aviv (multiple times), Cairo, Amman, Ankara, Doha, Manama, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Ramallah and Baghdad.