The failures of Joe Biden’s foreign policy

US secretary of state Antony Blinken wraps up his fifth trip to the Middle East since 7 October .

The Biden administration has yet to articulate a comprehensive US strategy for regional peace and stability.

In the last week , the US has conducted strikes against Iran -backed groups in Iraq and Syria .

Meanwhile, negotiations over a truce in Gaza are stuck, with the leadership of Israel and Hamas refusing to budge from their maximalist positions around a permanent ceasefire.

Benjamin Netanyahu is held hostage politically by the extremist bloc in his government led by the far-right ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich .

The US has not attempted to use its leverage in the form of conditioning military assistance or reducing its political cover of Israel at the UN to force Netanyahu to make hard choices for peace.