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Israel-Hamas conflict tests Biden's foreign policy message ahead of 2024: ANALYSIS

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Experts say it could undermine his claim his leadership makes for a safer world. The Hamas attack on Israel threatens to undermine not only President Joe Biden's foreign policy goals but his message headed into the 2024 elections that he's restoring American leadership abroad to make the world more secure, experts tell ABC News. In one key example, the surprise assault that has killed more than 900 people in Israel, including at least 11 Americans, could derail his administration's efforts to broker a major pact to normalize relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. The White House has touted the months-long effort as a historic agreement that would lead to peace and stability in the region. President Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House, Oct. 7, 2023, in Washington, after the militant Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel at daybreak Saturday. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP MORE: Israel-Gaza live upd...

Blinken’s Ukraine trip sends careful message of progress and peril: ANALYSIS

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits Ukraine to send a message of progress and peril. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's fourth visit to Ukraine since the war began was designed to convey unwavering American support for the invaded nation -- but that message was at times overshadowed by devastating human costs of the war and the ever-present danger that Western aid may not be enough. Like all trips into Ukraine by senior government officials, Blinken's journey this week was a feat of painstaking planning, with the details of his Travel closely guarded to prevent amplifying the inherent risk of entering a warzone. Blinken made the trip into Kyiv by train from Poland, a trek that took all night. Then, when he finally reached the terminus of the extraordinary journey, the secretary visited a place that feels entirely ordinary to most Americans -- making a quick stop at McDonald's with his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba. Of course, sitting down at the chain's...