Eight days before the attack, Sullivan said the Middle East 'is quieter today than it has been in two decades.'
Share on email Sullivan cautioned in the next sentence that "challenges remain," including tensions between Israelis and Palestinians and the threat from Iran. But the fact that the Hamas attack took the U.S. and Israel by such surprise points to a massive intelligence failure by both countries.
"At no point did the Biden administration take its eye off the ball of the threats to Israel," Sullivan stressed. "In fact, President Biden saw Prime Minister Netanyahu just weeks before this attack to discuss the security challenges facing the state of Israel."that the Biden administration does not currently have "pinpoint location information" for where Hamas is holding Americans, but said officials are working closely with Israel on hostage recovery operations.that the Biden administration is working "around the clock" to ensure all U.S.
"can't rule out that Iran would choose to get directly engaged" in the conflict in some way. He said that the U.S. has been "communicating privately with Iran" to deter escalatory action.Share on linkedin
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