Brett McGurk, who was the top Middle East adviser to President Joseph R. Biden Jr., offered the first inside-the-room account of American efforts to manage the Gaza war.
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. at the White House in May 2024. He spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel only twice in the first three months of that year.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s campaign for a coming election was already dominated by discussion of the policy, military and intelligence failures leading up to the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, 2023.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in a tight race for his political future, with national elections this month that are widely seen as the most consequential in the country’s history.
“I don’t deserve to die like this,” said one passenger on Flight 1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv. The motive of the cockpit stabbing remains unknown, officials said.
The Supreme Court had ordered the military to ensure a West Bank family that fled violence could go back. But settlers blocked the effort, with the authorities accused of not doing enough to confront them.
Official statements said bilateral relations were discussed. But the question of who bears responsibility for failing to prevent the Oct. 7 attack is a major election issue in Israel.
Gali Baharav-Miara, Israel’s attorney general, at a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. As the country heads into elections next month, she is bracing for what could be her biggest battle yet.
The warning from the leader of the United Arab Emirates, which lacked specific details about the nature of an attack, never reached the chiefs of Israel’s security establishment, Israeli officials said.
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