But CIA Director Bill Burns, the US point man in the talks, left the region empty-handed some 10 days ago.
“I think we’ve come very, very close on a couple of occasions,” Blinken told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
“We remain at it every single day. I think that there’s still a possibility,” Blinken said.
“But it’s challenged by a number of events and I have to say, yes the extremely wrongheaded decision by the ICC prosecutor yesterday — the shameful equivalence implied between Hamas and the leadership of Israel – I think that only complicates the prospects for getting such an agreement,” Blinken said.
