Antony Blinken had spent much of the past week meeting with Arab leaders to try to ease tensions, but those efforts are now in doubt following the hospital blast.
The raw nerve of“This war, which has entered a dangerous phase, will plunge the region into an unspeakable disaster,” warned Abdullah, who is among the closest Western allies in the Mideast.
Palestinians wave the national flag during a demonstration in the city of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank on October 18, 2023, protesting a strike on a Gaza hospital which killed hundreds a day earlier. Israel and Palestinians traded blame for the incident, which an"outraged and deeply saddened" US President Joe Biden denounced during a visit to the Middle East. Neither the Israeli nor the Palestinian accounts could be independently corroborated.
Thousands of students rallied at Egyptian universities on Wednesday to condemn Israeli strikes on Gaza. Protesters in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities chanted “Death to Israel” and “With our souls, with our blood, we sacrifice for you, Al-Aqsa,” referring to a contested Jerusalem holy site. A smaller protest was held near the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday.
“The Arab street has a voice. That voice may have been ignored in the past by governments in the region and the West … but they cannot do this anymore,” said Badr al-Saif, a history professor at Kuwait University. “People are on fire.”, in which four Arab states normalized relations with Israel in 2020, were a “pivot of history” that “heralded the dawn of a new age of peace.”
I asked tough questions as a friend of Israel. We will continue to deter any actor wanting to widen this conflict.The Abraham Accords, with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan, were reached with autocratic leaders willing to set aside the Palestinian issue in order to secure their own benefits from the U.S. The UAE hoped forSaudi Arabia had asked for a U.S.
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