The Biden administration’s so-called “day after" plan for the Gaza Strip has not been going well, especially in eliciting support from America’s partners in the Middle East.

       Not long before Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in the Turkish capital in early January to discuss the war in Gaza, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is richer than Hitler" and gets “all sorts of support" from the U.S. The Turkish leader has a long history of blood-curdling rhetoric that links Israelis with Nazis and has long supported Hamas in word and deed. Still, after his meetings in Turkey, Blinken told reporters that “it’s clear that Turkey is prepared to play a positive, productive role in the work that needs to happen the day after the conflict ends."

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