Meanwhile on the International front....

Is there a reason they don't use UN forces to oversee Gaza? Peacetime, wartime, all the time?

 

A generation of fetishizing 9/11 led to Americans actively hating ... other Americans

 

I suspect it has a lot to do with not wanting Blue Helmets shot, knifed, or kidnapped.

 

Same reason you can’t shop Walmart on the graveyard shift anymore. Who the hell’s going to take that job?

 

2017:

U.S. intelligence officials reportedly warn Israeli counterparts against sharing info with Trump administration

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/1...ous-over-trumps-loose-lips-russia-iran-syria/

Report: Trump revealed Israeli commando and Mossad operation in Syria to Russians

 

Jerusalem Catholic Patriarch offers to be exchanged for Gaza hostages

 

Open letter in the New York Review of Books, posted without comment:

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023...ants-in-the-palestine-festival-of-literature/

 

The Humanitarian Catastrophe in Gaza

 

Not great.

U.S. Expanding Military Presence Near Israel