crossed, as you the leading from your correspondent and israel when it out. >> there's israeli military activity in lebanon anything contrib these two countries back into lobbing missiles and rockets at each other once again in terms of the american role, it was very interesting in the past week. hearing that the us was telling israel to take the win and essentially move on. messaging to the iranians through, through allies that they shouldn't respond to an israeli attack. you wrote recently for a piece in foreign policy after more than a decade in which the american foreign the policy communities sought to de-emphasize, pivot away and retrenched from the middle east, the biden administration proved that washington can be separate from its confused approach. the war in gaza, a source of security in the region. so what do you make of the biden administration's efforts to tamp down this escalation while also continuing to support that warren gaza this has been a recurring theme of the biden administration since october 7 whip it, deployment of