“Virtually all Arab countries want to normalize” their relations with Israel, says Antony Blinken. The head of American diplomacy also spoke of the “imperative” of a Palestinian state.

“There is an extraordinary opportunity for Israel in the coming months to end this cycle once and for all’ of violence, he said in Munich, Germany, during the Security Conference. These comments came as Israel announced an imminent attack on Rafah, the southernmost town in the Gaza Strip, to hunt down Hamas fighters.