ANALYSIS — Key Arab leaders’ desire for what one senior White House official describes as a new “political horizon” for Gaza is only complicating President Joe Biden’s fraught efforts in the region — and his bid for a second term.
Jake Sullivan, White House national security adviser, said Monday that is what some Arab leaders have told U.S. officials that is what they would need to see before making long-term commitments to help the Palestinian enclave after Israel’s war with Hamas comes to an end.
Biden administration officials and lawmakers from both parties have called on wealthy Arab countries to do more to improve humanitarian aid flows into the strip. But with U.S. officials making clear it is Israel that is blocking food, water and fuel, most of Washington’s outreach to Arab countries has been to lean on Hamas to release hostages and accept a cease-fire proposal — and help establish a new governing framework for post-war Gaza.
