According to the top US ambassador, the US government is concentrating on stopping “an explosion” in the occupied West Bank, where the region has reached a breaking point due to almost daily Israeli military assaults. Speaking just before he boarded a plane to leave Egypt following a meeting with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Antony Blinken urged Israel to cooperate with the region to support a roadmap to Palestinian statehood, arguing that this is the most effective strategy to resist the influence of Iran. The occupied West Bank is expected to witness a major explosion at some point in the near future. It is impossible to anticipate when or how that will happen or what would set it off, but a number of ground-level changes over the previous