President Joe Biden is set to deliver his final address to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday.
President Joe Biden addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. Biden is expected to use his wide-ranging address to speak to the need to end the Middle East conflict and the 17-month-old civil war in Sudan and to highlight U.S. and Western allies' support for Kyiv since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
The Pentagon announced Monday that it was sending a small number of additional U.S. troops to the Middle East to supplement the roughly 40,000 already in the region, because of the rising tensions. All the while, the White House insists Israel and Hezbollah still have time to step back and de-escalate.
At the time, economic relations between Israel and some of its Arab neighbors were improving with implementation of the Abraham Accords that Israel signed with Bahrain, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates during the Trump administration. Now, the conflict is threatening to metastasize into a multi-front war and leave a lasting scar on Biden's presidential legacy.
Israel's leadership launched its counterattacks at a time of growing impatience with the Iranian-backed Hezbollah's persistent launching of missiles and drones across the Israel-Lebanon border after Hamas started the war with its brazen attack on Oct. 7. If I ever say it's not realistic then I might as well leave," Biden said last week when asked if the chances for a deal were quickly fading under his watch. "A lot of things don't look realistic until we get them done.
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