WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and his national security team see a narrow window to finally seal an agreement that would at least temporarily halt the war in the Gaza Strip and possibly end it for good even as they deflect pressure from college campus protests to abandon Israel in its fight against Hamas. Several factors converging at once have renewed the administration’s hopes that it can break through the stalemate in the next week or two. Biden’s team wants to capitalize on the successful
JERUSALEM — “There has to be a vision of what comes next,” President Joe Biden said last week of the war between Israel and Hamas. “In our view, it has to be a two-state solution.” The surest path to peace, said Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain, is a two-state solution, a sentiment echoed by President Emmanuel Macron of France. At first glance, their words seemed like a sepia-tinted throwback: invoking, as a remedy for the worst eruption of bloodshed between Israelis and Palestinians in man