the united nations is claiming that israel is responsible for feeding gazans, and this is a position that has no logic to it.

claims that israel is starving gaza have, to this point, been without evidentiary basis. to the contrary, israel has taken the unusual step of feeding it's enemies. dismantling the aid agency may, for the first time, actually result in the outcome of gazans dying of hunger, but there is no legal basis to pin their starvation on israel's dismantling of the agency.

i don't support the starvation of gazans, but i need to call on other countries to fill the gap. it was always unreasonable to expect israel to feed it's enemies, and it is abundantly clear at this point that somebody else needs to step in, or they actually are going to starve, and it will be everybody except israel's legal fault due to their failure to respond.

how do you end the war in ukraine?

there was a referendum in each of the states that seceded from ukraine. ukraine should be expected to accept the democratic will of the people in these regions and pull out of them and the united states should tell them that.

yes, there are questions about the referenda, but they also appear to be reflective of the will of the people in these provinces, or oblasts.

this would be a shift in us policy, but it's actually not one that requires a lot of mental gymnastics, and the previous administration's policy should, quite frankly, be viciously criticized for what it was, which is undemocratic.