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The White House is walking a careful line as it seeks to balance support for Israel in the aftermath of Hamas’s terrorist attacks with concerns about the humanitarian fallout in Gaza. President Biden and top administration officials have publicly backed Israel’s right to defend itself and to respond with force after more than a thousand Israelis died in…
President Joe Biden is preparing to travel to Israel and Jordan as the Israel-Hamas war rages and the humanitarian crisis worsens
Jon Alterman speaks with Dalal Mawad about her now book, which uses women's stories to analyze the 2020 Port of Beirut explosion, its aftermath, and Lebanon's ongoing troubles.
President Joe Biden’s efforts to tamp down tensions in the escalating war between Israel and Hamas faced massive setbacks even before he departed for the Middle East on Tuesday. Jordan
The postponement of the Amman summit comes after the Palestinian leader withdrew from the meetings in protest of an attack on a Gaza hospital, which Hamas blamed on an Israeli airstrike and which Israel blamed on a misfired Palestinian rocket.