The US secretary of state visited Jerusalem, Ramallah, Amman, Baghdad and Istanbul but, diplomatically speaking, seems still to be on the road to nowhere.
America's chief diplomat has been engaged on a frantic bout of shuttle diplomacy across the Middle East - with little to show for it. US secretary of state Antony Blinken visited Jerusalem, Ramallah, Amman, Baghdad and Istanbul but, diplomatically speaking, seems still to be on the road to nowhere. He has three tasks in hand - none of them going well.
Turkey's leader for instance, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has made it clear Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is history to him. 'We have erased him,' he has said. US support for Israel in the war in Gaza is disastrous for American standing in the region and further afield. Developing nations looking on see double standards when it comes to Israel and Ukraine, and are consequently likely to be less sympathetic to the West's calls to support them in the war there.
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