U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapped up a two-day visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank Tuesday with little to show for his renewed appeals for Israeli-Palestinian calm amid an alarming spike of violence. Blinken met Tuesday with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank town of…
A deadly Israeli military raid Thursday in the occupied West Bank killed nine suspected Palestinian militants and sent regional tensions soaring ahead of a planned visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the region in the coming days.
The new religious, ultranationalist administration in Israel is not to the liking of most European leaders. But some ties are deeper than any disagreements between governments.