Hamas’s carnage upends Joe Biden’s plans for the Middle East

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include the latest number of Americans confirmed killed and the EU’s U-turn on freezing aid to the Palestinian Authority.

“THE MIDDLE EAST region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.” The words of Jake Sullivan, America’s national security adviser, have come back to mock him. Just eight days after he uttered them on September 29th, Hamas’s slaughter of Israelis and others confronts President Joe Biden with an acute Middle Eastern crisis atop the chronic one in Ukraine and a looming one over Taiwan.