Blinken Reaffirms US Opposition to Cease-fire

"The concern that is uppermost in people's minds is the humanitarian situation inside Gaza, which is becoming worse by the minute, and the lack of an ability of the international community to bring in the much needed aid and assistance that is necessary to deal with that crisis," says the Council's Ivo Daalder. "And as a result, we are forgetting what happened on October 7," he tells CNN's Julia Chatterley.
"Clearly what Hamas did was a war crime. It was horrendous. It was the worst day in Jewish history since the Holocaust. But what is happening on the ground in Gaza is changing the narrative in an important way.
"I think the reason that President Biden asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken to go to Jerusalem to insist and ask for a pause to allow humanitarian aid is exactly that. That the narrative is being lost, not only in the Arab street, it's being lost on Western squares where there are huge public demonstrations and increasingly around the world. And the reason is the war is justified. But the need to deal with the humanitarian consequences of this fight are now uppermost in people's minds."
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I totally agree. Great analysis by Ivo Daalder

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