FBI Director Kash Patel
Vice President JD Vance has a trip to Israel planned for Tuesday but has reportedly canceled it in the wake of Israel’s military operation in Gaza.
The Vance team cited “logistical” reasons for canceling the trip but did not expand but Axios quotes a U.S. official who says that the decision was made because the VP “didn’t want his trip to suggest the Trump administration endorsed the Israeli decision to launch a massive operation at a time when the U.S. is pushing for a ceasefire and hostage deal.”
Israel has commenced what they call Gideon’s Chariots. It is a full-scale invasion of Gaza with an attempt to displace every single one of the 2 million civilians living there. It involves Israeli airstrikes, ground troops, armored divisions, and naval units on a level not seen before.
Israel says that they have issued evacuation warnings via leaflets, text and media so if civilians stick around and die, that’s not on Israel. They tell them to go to Safe Zones but those Safe Zones have been bombed too.
France, the United Kingdom and Canada issued a joint condemnation of the Israeli military operation on Monday. It calls Israel’s reaction to October 7 “wholly disproportionate” and calls out the Netanyahu Government for breach of International Humanitarian Law. It says that these countries are “committed to recognising a Palestinian state as a contribution to achieving a two-state solution and are prepared to work with others to this end.”
Netanyahu did not take kindly to this statement. He called it a “huge prize” for Hamas and told them to follow President Trump’s lead and support Israel. He added: “We will take control of all the territory of the strip.”
