US Secretary of State Antony Blinken held talks Wednesday with President Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the Palestinian Authority that Washington hopes could govern Gaza after the war ends. The United States’ top diplomat was on his fourth crisis visit to the Middle East since Israel’s brutal war on the Gaza Strip began, meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on Tuesday. Blinken told a news conference afterwards that the United States would continue to support its ally, but also called on Israel to do more to protect those trapped in the besieged Palestinian territory, sa…