US Senator Chris Van Hollen calls President Joe Biden’s Gaza policy “ineffective” and an “unprecedented deterioration in [US] efforts to secure a two-state solution and address the root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”, Al Jazeera reports.

In an opinion piece published in The Washington Post, Van Hollen, a Democrat from Maryland, warned that “nothing will haunt President Joe Biden’s foreign policy legacy as much as his failed policies in the Middle East.”

Van Hollen stressed that Biden still has time to “correct” some of the mistakes he has made.

Since October 7, 2023, he added, Biden “has failed to effectively exercise American leadership to achieve his own stated goals: ending the war, securing the release of the hostages, and implementing his ‘day after’ plan to create a path toward sustainable peace in the region”.

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