Blinken in Israel to meet Netanyahu's new hard-line government amid spiraling violence with Palestinians

Israel and the occupied West Bank were rocked by violence over the weekend, including an attack in East Jerusalem that saw a Palestinian gunman open fire on a Jewish settlement in the disputed part of the holy city, killing seven people. The latest bloodshed came after weeks of mounting tension between Israel and the Palestinians — and just hours before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Jerusalem to meet members of Israel's new far-right government.

Given the stark differences between the administration of President Joe Biden in Washington and...