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Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Friday on MSNBC’s “All In” that Israel needed to “stop the indiscriminate slaughter of innocent people.” Sanders said, “What we are looking at now is one of the more horrific moments in modern history. It initiated with a Hamas attack in a barbaric way to kill hundreds of men and children. Israel has a right to defend itself. I don’t think anyone disagrees with that. But what they are doing now in an indiscriminate way, bombing refugee camps, arming ambulances, killing thousands of innocent men and women and children, a violation of international law, is…

Among military professionals, urban combat is widely considered to be the most grueling, intricate, and deadly of operations. As Israel launches a new phase of its war effort with ground troop incursions into Gaza, its stated goal of destroying Hamas runs up against near-impossible conditions: battling enemies and rescuing hostages while navigating walled-in dead ends, concrete high-rises, and a network of deep and booby-trapped tunnels that its adversary has been preparing for years. Add Gaza’s civilians to the mix, half of whom are children, and it can seem like a series of no-win trade-offs, even for commanders of well-trained and exquisitely equipped troops.…

Hillary Clinton’s public appearances in recent months have been less than successful. She has been faced with a bit of the truth which she finds hard to accept. We covered a breakdown that Clinton had on Tuesday, where a man accused her of “warmongering” and not calling Biden out for his dangerous foreign policy. Clinton was furious. It’s a great piece of advice. Clinton yelled, “Sit Down! We’ve Heard Your Opinion.” Hillary is all about winning friends and influencing others. She wonders how she lost. She is a terrible communicator. You have to give that guy credit for grilling her…

“Civilians are not collateral damage,” the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean tweeted (or whatever it’s called now on X, formerly Twitter) on October 27. “Patients are not collateral damage. Health staff & health facilities are not collateral damage. Children, women & men sheltering in health facilities are not collateral damage. International Humanitarian Law must be respected.” WHO is obviously referring to events in Gaza. Unfortunately, the statement goes both too far and not far enough. The “too far” part: On a quick read of “international law” – specifically Protocol I and the 1997 Additional Protocol of the 1949…