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We would like the UN to speak in a clear voice, for once, and to say who started this war,
said Daniel Danon, Israel's ambassador to the UN, referring to Hamas The horror of that day will live in infamy,
said European Parliament President Roberta Metsola We need to come here to (remember) my father, but also to put again the hostages on the agenda because that's the important thing now,
said Yuval Dancyg, Alex Dancyg's son The region cannot endure another year of this, civilians on all sides have suffered too much. All sides must now step back from the brink and find the courage of restraint,
Today is a very emotional day,
said 48-year-old Zack Shachar, whose cousin Naama Levy was taken hostage on Oct 7. They're still continuing to offer diplomatic support to Israel,
Every day people are dying, they don't have food, they are starving,
said social activist Bhavna Sharma I want to say 'I'm here alive, thank God',
said Carmel Efron, who survived the Hamas attack Force alone cannot guarantee Israel's security, your security,
Why are we sending arms to Israel?"
All eyes used to be on Gaza, and now they are on Lebanon. And therefore what's happening in the West Bank goes pretty much under the radar, but it is quite dramatic,
We know from experience, and we know from the specific history of Israel-Lebanon, that they don’t ever intend to stay. They don’t intend to occupy, but that’s what happens,
says Zonszein, the Crisis Group analyst Absent a change of policy in Jerusalem, we are sliding into an open-ended occupation of Gaza,
says Nimrod Novik, a fellow at the Israel Policy Forum and the former foreign policy advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres From now until Nov. 5, he has more free reign than ever, because he knows that the Biden Administration is certainly not going to do anything before the election,
says Yousef Munayyer, a nonresident fellow at the Arab Center in Washington, D.C., and a longtime observer of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict The prime minister is driving decisions on national security based on partisan, personal considerations,
Novik says, referencing recent revelations that The whole world’s against us.”
Neither of those things is visible to the outside world, however, and when international sympathy shifted to the people in Gaza dying under Israeli bombs, many Israelis defaulted to a familiar refrain We’re going to see the West Bank sliding in a Gaza-like direction,
Novik argues, citing, among other factors, rising settler violence and the increasing appeal of armed resistance groups among Palestinian youth, many of whom have no memory of the Second Intifada and embrace the resistance ethos of Hamas It's been a very tragic conflict. And I think, in all fairness, this time last year, none of us expected to see a war going on for a full year. All we can do is join the government in calling for a ceasefire as soon as possible,
We now instead see the widening of the war northwards towards Lebanon, where, again, there have been some successes on the Israeli part. But again, a lot of civilian lives also appear to be lost, and in the process of being lost, as well as a lot of accompanying devastation,
The Israeli prime minister came here today and said that Israel is surrounded by those who want to destroy it,
At the recent UN general assembly, Jordan’s minister of foreign affairs, Ayman Safadi, proclaimed ... he began