Hamas-Israel war: Why Arab frustrations with US are spiking
A peace summit in Jordan canceled at the last minute, a public lecture from the Egyptian president, ghosting the U.S. secretary of state for an entire night in Saudi Arabia.
Arab leaders’ rebuffing of U.S. officials this week underscored a deepening frustration with an administration seen as unable or unwilling to rein in the Israeli military campaign in Gaza, which they say is destabilizing the region and, amid a devastating blast at a Gaza hospital, their regimes at home.
Protests shook Amman and the West Bank for the second day Wednesday over the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip, which has uprooted more than 1 million Gazans and killed nearly 3,500 people in response to a Hamas attack that killed 1,400 Israelis.
Cairo was also the scene of mass protests, and the U.S. Embassy in Amman was forced to close.
The main diplomatic casualty was a peace summit set to have taken place
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