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Home / Israel-Hamas / Biden mobilizes, again, to calm Mideast even as he wrangles with Netanyahu
Israel‑Hamas, Iran, Middle East

August 8, 2024

Biden mobilizes, again, to calm Mideast even as he wrangles with Netanyahu

“Policymakers in Washington should do everything possible to prevent the outbreak of a full-scale regional war” in the Middle East, says Michael DiMino, a former CIA counterterrorism officer who is now a fellow at Defense Priorities, a Washington think tank promoting restraint in U.S. foreign policy.

Such a conflict “would not serve the security interests of the United States, Israel, or the world,” he says.

Read at Christian Science Monitor

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