Megan K. Stack: Nowhere is safe in Gaza. This line is repeated in the South African suit. Most of the people are starving. Around 70 percent of the dead are women and children and two mothers are killed every hour, the United Nations has estimated. read more
Michelle Goldberg: Two far-right members of Israel's cabinet -- the national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich -- caused an international uproar this week with their calls to depopulate Gaza. "If in Gaza there will be 100,000 or 200,000 Arabs and not two million the entire conversation on the day after' will look different," said Smotrich, who called for most Gazan civilians to be resettled in other countries. read more
Benjamin Moser: In December, amid catastrophic bloodshed in Gaza, the House of Representatives resolved that "anti-Zionism is antisemitism." The vote was 311 to 14, with 92 members voting present, reflecting a consensus among American political elites that opposition to Zionism is equivalent to the conspiratorial hatred of Jews. If the resolution itself had no immediate practical consequences, the consensus behind it did. read more
But should Trump go 100% off the rails, that's to say go completely berserk, it might be entertaining to watch the U.S. Army step in and throw a net over Trump and arrest him for Treason (the one with a capital "T."
From your lips to wherever, TWINPAC. I hate to say it, but I wish I shared your optimism. Remember Lafayette Square.