Only President Trump can call a halt to what is happening in Gaza
Displaced Palestinians including women and children wait to receive food distributed by aid organisations in Gaza
Omar Ashtawy, PA, Alamy
Polling data reveals that more than 70 per cent is roughly the proportion of the Israeli population who do not much care about the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza, even though Netanyahu’s decision to expand the war against Hamas is widely unpopular.
It is seen as a pointless waste of the lives of Israeli soldiers, not as a gross and deliberately contrived humanitarian disaster for Gazan Palestinians, which is how the rest of the world sees it. The Israeli mass media is largely unconcerned with that, with honourable exceptions.
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