Blinken met with Abbas late last month in the West Bank at the end of an intense series of diplomatic meetings planned before the latest flare-up of violence. In their phone call, the two ...

We're urging all sides now to take urgent steps to restore calm, to de-escalate," Blinken said after meeting ... is or what they believe," he said. "Calls for vengeance against more innocent ...

“Productive call with Netanyahu to discuss regional developments,” Blinken tweeted after the phone ... and Palestinians to take steps to restore calm and our opposition to escalatory ...

But, he added: “Calls for vengeance against more ... responsibility of everyone to take steps to calm tensions rather than inflame them,” Blinken said. Though couched in diplomatic parlance ...

“Restoring calm is our immediate task ... a member of a religious ultra-nationalist party, lashed out at Blinken’s call for a commitment to human rights and rule of law.