Summer Concepcion is a politics reporter for NBC News.
Eight days before Hamas launched its deadly attack on Israel, national security adviser Jake Sullivan had described the Middle East region as “quieter” than it had been in two decades. He defended those remarks on 'Meet the Press' on Sunday. “Jake, why was your assessment there so far off the mark?” NBC News' Kristen Welker asked. Sullivan said that he made those comments “in the context of developments in the wider Middle East region over the last few years.
' Sullivan noted that, in the sentence before the clip of his remarks aired on 'Meet the Press,' he said that the situation in the Middle East 'could all change' and that the two threats that he had identified at the time were: tensions between Israelis and Palestinians, as well as the threat from Iran — which has historically backed Hezbollah.
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