Saudi Arabia, Egypt and then Israel on Friday: US Secretary of State Blinken is touring the region again to negotiate a ceasefire – and sounds confident. Rightly so?
America’s Secretary of State is traveling in the Middle East again; Antony Blinken has been flying from country to country for months. His boss Joe Biden is currently on the phone primarily with the leaders of the states, especially with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is the most important issue. The US President is at home campaigning against Donald Trump, and the war in Gaza is also causing him domestic political problems. When his top diplomat, Blinken, tours the crisis area again, he wants to achieve one thing first and foremost: a ceasefire.