US largely coming up empty in full-court diplomatic press with Israel and Arab world
WASHINGTON — Israel's war with Hamas, which has killed thousands of people in a single month, is reverberating across the globe, roiling U.S. politics while sowing division in universities and workplaces — and inside the Biden administration.
Yet the administration's efforts to contain a widening and disastrous conflict appear to be falling short, despite intervention by President Joe Biden and the most muscular diplomatic push to date by his top diplomat, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken.
Israel has repeatedly rebuffed advice from the U.S., its staunchest ally. And friendly Arab nations that initially joined U.S. condemnation of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks against Israel that triggered the war have gradually distanced themselves from Washington.
The chaotic dynamics have over how the conflict will play out, how it will end and what the resulting landscape
