A stop in aid to Gaza by worried suppliers for their staff’s safety….
President Biden outraged and heartbroken about the situation…
(He’s on the hook for Congress’s approval of military aid in the past that has become known)
More American lawmakers talking about condtions on US aid to Israel…..
Protests IN Israel against the Netanyahu Govt’s ignoring getting a ceasefire to get hostages back..
More talks between the parties….
Donald Trump wants the whole thing ‘over’….Period…
And a Israeli Government that seems to have a deaf ear to outside and inside pressuere for a cease-fire /settlement….
And Iran probably happy….
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Here’s what we know:
Humanitarian agencies say they are being more cautious about delivering aid, and at least two have suspended operations.
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World Central Kitchen sent ships with hundreds of tons of food back to Cyprus.
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Biden says he is ‘outraged’ by the attack on an aid convoy, after Israel’s military says it was a mistake.
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The national security adviser postpones a trip to Saudi Arabia after cracking his rib.
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Israel’s military says U.N. observers in Lebanon were wounded by a buried explosive device.
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A protest turns into a ‘riot’ outside Netanyahu’s Jerusalem home, the police say….
Ex-President Trump on the Israeli/Hamas conflict…
Two Israeli journalists traveled to Palm Beach, Fla., a little over a week ago, hoping to elicit from Donald J. Trump a powerful expression of support for their country’s war in Gaza.
Instead, one of them wrote that what they heard from Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago “shocked us deeply.”
“Both U.S. presidential candidates, Biden and Trump, are turning their rhetorical backs on Israel,” concluded Ariel Kahana, a right-wing settler who is the senior diplomatic correspondent for Israel Hayom. The newspaper is owned by the billionaire Republican donor Miriam Adelson; Ms. Adelson herself arranged the interview with Mr. Trump, according to a person with direct knowledge of the planning.
What had Mr. Trump said that so alarmed Mr. Kahana?
He told the interviewers that Israel was losing public support for its Gaza assault, that the images of devastation were bad for Israel’s global image and that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should end his war soon — statements that sounded far more like something President Biden might say than the kind of cheerleading Mr. Netanyahu has come to expect from Washington Republicans.
“You have to finish up your war,” Mr. Trump said. “You have to get it done. We have to get to peace. We can’t have this going on.”……