The Free Press · October 2026

New Book on Biden Administration’s Gaza Policy Debates Published

• Akbar Shahid Ahmed, senior diplomatic correspondent for The Washington Sun, has published a new book, Crossing the Red Line, via W.W. Norton.
• The book argues that lower-ranking Biden administration staff pressed to restrain Israel in the weeks after October 7, 2023, and assigns blame to former secretary of state Antony Blinken, former national security adviser Jake Sullivan, and former Middle East coordinator Brett McGurk.
• The reviewer disputes the book's objectivity, calling it "not an objective assessment or fair history of the Biden administration's policy debates."

Book details and thesis as described in the original review. Original headline: "We're Still Drowning in Myths About the Gaza War".