President Joe Biden is in Israel this morning and that’s apparently going to be his only stop on this trip. New developments in the war-torn region led to what even the Associated Press was compelled to describe as “massive setbacks” before Air Force One even got off the ground. After meeting with Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders, Biden had been scheduled to attend what was being described as “the Amman Summit” in the capital of Jordan. But Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas pulled out of the event, leading the Jordanians to scrap the entire thing. The reason cited was the explosion of a hospital in Gaza, which Hamas is blaming on Israel. It now appears that a misfired Hamas rocket actually detonated a supply of explosives they were storing in the hospital, but the event still doesn’t appear likely to happen.Read More
Biden Skipping Stop in Jordan
