Where US-backed diplomacy is on the march in the Middle East

Despite the convulsion of Israeli-Palestinian violence, there are signs that the arrival of a diplomacy-first Biden administration has accelerated a “diplomatic spring” across much of the Middle East.

In a Middle East region where an old conflict has erupted anew, the official resets in diplomatic ties have been, nevertheless, as many as they have been momentous.

After eight years of frosty relations, withdrawn ambassadors, rivalry, and recriminations, Egypt and Turkey held their first high-level talks last week to move toward “normalized ties.”

Not to be outdone, Qatar advanced its detente...