Vice-president takes campaign to radio show popular with white men amid a series of sit-down interviewsKamala Harris appeared on the Howard Stern show on Tuesday, calling Donald Trump a sore loser" and receiving an endorsement from the host, Howard Stern.Her appearance on the radio show, whose listenership skews white and male, comes as Harris embarks on a series of sit-down interviews on popular talkshows and podcasts, including Stern, The View, the podcast Call Her Daddy and the Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Continue reading...
A team of 'hurricane hunters' from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) flew through Milton as the category 4 hurricane barrelled towards Florida's coast. The team from NOAA gathered data on the storm, which is expected to be one of the worst to hit the US in decades. Joe Biden warned that evacuation orders for residents in the storm's path were a matter of 'life and death' as he announced that he had cancelled his trips to Germany and Angola to remain in the US as the storm hit.
Garland v VanDerStok first in series of high-profile cases justices hear in what is set to be contentious termThe US supreme court signalled a willingness to uphold the regulation of ghost guns" - firearms without serial numbers that are built from kits that people can order online and assemble at home.The manufacturers and gun rights groups challenging the rule argued the Biden administration overstepped by trying to regulate kits.
Mohamed Bahi allegedly deleted Signal, the app he used to communicate with the mayor, amid FBI investigationA former aide to Eric Adams was arrested Tuesday on charges of witness tampering and destroying evidence in relation to a federal investigation that has spawned FBI raids, a string of resignations and bribery charges brought against the New York mayor.Mohamed Bahi, who ran the mayor's community affairs office, had already stepped down when he was charged on Tuesday with instructing multiple witnesses to lie to federal investigators about a December 2020 fundraiser for Adams' victorious mayoral election campaign. Continue reading...
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Inquiry by Sheldon Whitehouse found White House and FBI misled' about inquiry into supreme court nomineeThe Trump administration protected Brett Kavanaugh from facing a full FBI investigation in the wake of serious allegations that he sexually assaulted two women - once in high school and once in college - during his controversial 2018 Senate confirmation to become a supreme court justice, according to a new report.An investigation led by the Democratic senator Sheldon Whitehouse also found that both the Trump White House and the FBI misled the public and the Senate" about the scope of the investigation it did conduct into the sexual assault allegations by falsely claiming that the FBI had conducted its investigation thoroughly and by the book". Continue reading...
We'd like to hear from people from US swing states who are still undecided about whom to vote for in the 2024 presidential election, and for what reasonsWith less than a month to go until the 2024 US presidential election, and voting already underway in many parts of the country, we're interested to hear from US voters who live in swing states and are still undecided how they may vote.If you live in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona or Nevada we'd like to know why you are still undecided if that applies to you - whether it's because of particular events or developments that make it difficult to make up your mind, because you require more clarity on certain policy areas or the candidates themselves, or for any other reason. Continue reading...
Unions have mobilized thousands of members to convince them that Harris is a far better ally than TrumpEven though the vast majority of US labor unions have endorsed Kamala Harris, many union members support Donald Trump, and with the race so close, unions have stepped up efforts to convince those workers that Trump is no friend of unions or workers.In Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin - states that Harris badly needs to win - union households are an important voting bloc, and unions have mobilized thousands of members to engage in worksite conversations, door-knocking and phone-banking to make the case that Harris is far better for workers than Trump. Continue reading...
Events in Austria are alarming. Because there and elsewhere, progressives hold up their hands and ask: what can we do?Last Thursday, on a cool Vienna night, anti-fascist protesters thronged through the pretty boulevards of Austria's capital. The far right - in the shape of the Freedom party (FPO), led by bespectacled ideologue Herbert Kickl - had secured first place in September's elections, unprecedented in postwar Austria. The protesters waved placards with slogans like FPO ist so 1938", referring to the year of Adolf Hitler's Anschluss annexation, and chanted Nazis raus!" (Nazis out!"). They were boisterous and determined, but without a clear strategy to drive back the rightwing authoritarian surge that threatens to rot western democracies from within.What is happening in Austria should alarm you, because it reflects a wider trend. It's certainly true that the FPO is different from other far-right parties because it can directly trace its roots to Europe's fascist past: its first leader in the 1950s was a former Nazi functionary, and its leader in the 1990s - Jorg Haider - praised Nazi employment policies and lauded former Waffen-SS members as decent men". When the conservative Austrian People's party (OVP) brought him into coalition in 2000, this breaching of the cordon sanitaire, which was supposed to separate the centre right and what lies beyond, led to EU sanctions and mass protests at home and abroad.Owen Jones is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
Former president says territory where 41,000 people have been killed could be better than Monaco' if developedDonald Trump's truthfulness as well as his knowledge of Middle East geography has come under fresh scrutiny after the former president claimed to have been to Gaza - although there is no evidence of him ever visiting the war-torn Palestinian territory.Trump raised eyebrows after the Republican nominee in November's presidential election told Hugh Hewitt, a rightwing radio host, that he had been in the tiny coastal strip where more than 41,000 people have been killed and the majority of buildings badly damaged or destroyed in blistering Israeli military attacks responding to last year's 7 October attack by Hamas. The Hamas attack killed 1,200 about Israelis and took about 250 hostage. Continue reading...
After fewer than 100 days, it's hard to think of anyone who has squandered so much electoral capital so quickly for so littleDay two of Keir Starmer's reset, and it's impossible not to get caught up in the thrill of revolution. Running as the change candidate against your own administration, fewer than 100 days into it, is a genuinely exciting place to be. Has it been done before? I've got a feeling it will be again - and soon.The weekend's big news was the vanquishing of Sue Gray, the breakout star of the Sue Gray report. Starmer's erstwhile chief of staff has been made an envoy", which is an honour on a par with having special projects" in your job title if you work in the media. As for her vanquisher, the chief of staff role has now been subsumed by Starmer's political chief, Morgan McSweeney. Visually speaking - the only way to judge a book - McSweeney has the look of a supporting actor in a regional detective show. I see him as the local number two to the guy who's sent to an unfamiliar place (in this case, government) and forced to do something that its denizens are increasingly hostile towards (in this case, be prime minister). Continue reading...
A doctors' ability to provide sound patient care diminishes with age. We need a comprehensive, fair and respectful way of assessing fitness to practiceAt my medical graduation over 25 years ago, the earnest guest speaker made us promise we would get ourselves a GP. All 160 of us humoured him, secretly believing illness was something that happened to other people.I was 23 years old then. It took me 20 years to honour the promise. In that time, no friend issued me a prescription or arranged any tests: I guess I was lucky. During pregnancy, my obstetrician took charge but didn't mention getting a GP. Becoming a parent made me realise the importance of objectivity in healthcare, which is how my family found a GP. To be clear, I don't recommend any doctor delay finding a GP like I did, especially in this environment of stress and burnout. Continue reading...
US's former longtime top public health official describes terrifying' disorientation from the virusThe US's former longtime top public health official Anthony Fauci says his recent bout with West Nile virus nearly took [him] down".In an opinion piece published Monday by the New York Times, Fauci explained how he likely contracted the virus - which spreads through mosquito bites - outside his home in Washington before he was hospitalized in August. Continue reading...
Shasta county battles rising homelessness and high suicide rates, but its political agenda is focused on remaking the voting system - can the damage be undone?This is the second of three stories on the run-up to the 2024 US presidential election in Shasta county, a region of 180,000 people in northern California that has emerged as a center of the election denial movement and hotbed for far-right politics. Read the first one here.Tim Garman is worried about Shasta county. His community has been in the midst of a dizzying lurch to the far right, gaining national attention for its rowdy and radical politics and full-throated embrace of election conspiracy theories. Continue reading...
A top emergency official says lies spread by Donald Trump and his supporters about Hurricane Helene have hampered recovery efforts. Plus: how to combat food wasteGood morning.Hurricane Milton is expected to sweep past Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and hit the south-west coast of Florida by Wednesday evening local time, bringing sustained winds of nearly 155mph (250km/h) to an area already reeling from Hurricane Helene's devastation 12 days ago. Almost all of Florida's west coast was under a hurricane warning and more than a million people were told to evacuate.How has the Fema chief responded to Trump's falsehoods? Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, have accused the Biden administration of abandoning" people and, baselessly, of being short of disaster relief funds due to money spent on undocumented migrants. (Fema's housing program, which offers shelter to migrants leaving detention, is separate from its disaster relief program.) Deanne Criswell, the Fema administrator, said these falsehoods were creating an impedance to our ability to actually get people the help they need".What else is the right saying about the hurricanes? The far-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has been criticised for spreading false conspiracy theories that they can control the weather". Though she never specified who she meant by they", she has a history of promoting untrue conspiracy theories around the federal government, her political opponents and Jews.What will happen to disaster relief if Trump is elected? Experts say that under the controversial rightwing Project 2025 manifesto, which was authored by numerous former Trump officials, federal forecasting of severe storms and aid given to shattered towns and cities would be drastically scaled back.What else did Harris say? She vowed to raise taxes on billionaires and the biggest corporations in order to fund her economic proposals, which include plans to build millions of new housing units, tax breaks for new parents and $25,000 down-payment assistance for new homebuyers.Will Trump sit down with 60 Minutes? The CBS correspondent Scott Pelley told the audience that Trump cancelled an interview last week, with the Trump campaign providing shifting explanations" for why the Republican nominee had declined to participate, including that he did not want to be factchecked.What do the polls say? Harris has a narrow lead over Trump in national polls, though the race is in effect neck and neck in the swing states that will decide the election. Continue reading...
Trump led this demographic handily in 2016 and 2020 but younger white women are moving decidedly to the leftWhite women voters have been the backbone of the GOP for decades - but polls indicate their support for the party may erode this November, thanks to younger white women who are moving left at breakneck speed.In the weeks after the 2016 presidential election, after Donald Trump stunned the world by defeating Hillary Clinton, media outlets seized on white women to explain his shock win. Forty-seven per cent of white women voted for Trump, while 45% backed Clinton, according to an analysis of validated voter files by the Pew Research Center. Continue reading...
The Gulf coast of Florida is bracing for the impact of Hurricane Milton's winds and expected huge storm surge. Almost all of Florida's west coast was under a hurricane warning early on Tuesday, as the storm and its 155mph winds crept toward the state. Florida is is gearing up for what could be its biggest evacuation in seven years, with landfall projected for Wednesday or early Thursday in the Tampa Bay area. Weather officials said Milton was expected to bring heavy rainfall, flooding, a life-threatening storm surge and strong winds
Manifesto calls for drastic cuts to federal forecasting of severe storms and aid given to shattered towns and citiesWith communities still reeling from Hurricane Helene, one of the deadliest storms ever to hit the US, further pain in the form of Hurricane Milton is about to hit Florida. Experts warn such disasters will be deepened if Donald Trump is elected and follows the policy plans of the controversial rightwing Project 2025 manifesto.Under Project 2025, authored by numerous former Trump officials but disavowed by the former president himself, the federal forecasting of severe storms and aid given to shattered towns and cities would be drastically scaled back. Emergency management officials say the cuts would severely worsen the outcomes from a storm like Helene. Continue reading...
Any voter who is still undecided a month from the election seems like the sort who is unlikely to even remember to voteWho, exactly, could be an undecided voter in 2024? It's not as if the candidates do not draw a sufficient contrast. There can be few people alive these days, let alone few registered voters in America, who do not know much more than they ever thought they would about the habits, history, and inner psyche of Donald Trump, who has now been a singularly domineering force in national politics for nearly a decade. The Harris campaign has been trying to play their candidates' comparative newness on the national stage as an asset, rigorously keeping her from saying much of substance, but Kamala Harris, too, is by now a well-known figure: once a popular and high profile senator from the country's biggest state, she moved on to a busy, energetic, and extremely visible vice presidency.The candidates are about as familiar to Americans as they're going to get; anyone still saying they are undecided" now, just four weeks out from the election, seems like the sort who has been paying so little attention that they're not likely to remember to vote at all.Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...
While her husband boasts about overturning Roe v Wade, the former first lady is supporting abortion rights. It's almost as if she doesn't care whether he wins the electionMelania Trump has put her support for abortion rights at the centre of her forthcoming memoir - you might even call it the news line. This has confused some observers. It's hard to follow the logic of putting out the former First Lady's book right before the election, undercutting President Trump's message to pro-life voters," wrote one anti-abortion activist, Kristen Hawkins.Donald Trump, meanwhile, remains where he was on the subject, which is ... well, where is he, exactly? He wants the credit for overturning Roe v Wade - and probably deserves it, given that he appointed the hard-right judges whose views were decisive. But he also wants the issue of reproductive rights to stop energising Kamala Harris's campaign. Continue reading...
Joey Sides' peripatetic career included stints in Netherlands, Germany and Scotland (where he was sponsored by a hotel). The memories will last a lifetimeWhen Arizona Sundogs rookie Joey Sides walked into the Wichita Thunder minor league hockey arena in 2009, he smelled manure. It was little wonder: the venue doubled as a home for the local rodeo. But that was nothing compared to the stands, which seemed to go almost straight up. Behind the bench, fans could practically reach out and grab players' jerseys - they were that close. You could hear everything the wild crowd of about 10,000 said. It felt like mayhem in there," Sides says. The rabble threw beer at players and were dragged out of the stadium by security. I could hear one of the fans yelling at my buddy on the ice, saying, Hey, Jonesy! Mix in a salad, you fat fuck!' as he chucked a beer at him. It was insane."Then there was the time later in his career when another team purchased a decommissioned bus for the players at a bargain. That thing broke down, like, six times on us," Sides says. It got so bad that the players agreed that if it showed up for a game against Kansas City, they'd refuse to get on. But their coaches said the team owners would be upset by the boycott. So, they got on and rode. The bus didn't have shocks and Sides watched his teammates flying around, hitting their heads on the ceiling, while it drove over speed bumps. Going 75mph, the vehicle then blew a tire and the whole interior began to fill with dark smoke. It came to a screeching halt on the highway. The players sat on the side of the road so long, waiting for a new ride, that the sold out game in Kansas City was canceled and the players instead celebrated St Patrick's Day in a Podunk town bar, singing karaoke with locals. Continue reading...
The league is seeing successful kicks that once seemed unimaginable become routine. What's behind the upsurge in performance?In the first 70 years of its existence, the NFL saw two successful field goals struck from 60-plus yards.Brandon Aubrey, the Dallas Cowboys kicker, has already hit two this season alone. Continue reading...
I have seen how structural racism is embedded in the EU's institutions. A recruitment revolution is neededAs Ursula von der Leyen sweet-talked and bullied EU leaders to send more women to Brussels over recent weeks, I kept hoping she would also make her incoming team of European commissioners more racially diverse. Thanks to an unexpected twist of fate involving (very) complicated Belgian politics, Hadja Lahbib, Belgium's foreign minister, could soon make history as the first ever EU commissioner who is also a person of colour.Lahbib is the daughter of Algerian immigrants who was born and grew up in the Borinage, a coal-mining and industrial region in southwestern Belgium. She must yet, like other commissioners-designate, convince the European parliament that despite some past political mishaps, she's got what it takes to become the EU commissioner for crisis management and equality, the two - rather unrelated - portfolios she has been assigned. So it is not a done deal yet.Shada Islam is a Brussels-based commentator on EU affairs. She runs New Horizons project, a strategy, analysis and advisory company.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...
Labour says it is committed to other overseas territories', but why? These colonial-era dreams are costing the country dearThe British empire still sends governments mad. Labour's Foreign Office minister in charge of its lasting shreds, Stephen Doughty, has granted the isolated Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to the sovereignty of independent Mauritius. This modest act of decolonisation makes sense. But the government wants to retain a joint US-UK military base there. Why? Britain no longer rules India or Singapore. A base off India, even a shared one, is pure imperial show.Doughty has 14 other overseas territories" in his charge. Among them are Bermuda, Pitcairn, Montserrat, the Caymans, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. The union flag will still fly over them; the Royal Navy will keep guard and sing the national anthem.Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
In a wide-ranging interview with CBS's 60 Minutes, the vice-president was questioned on where her political positions had shiftedKamala Harris defended her economic plans, refused to call Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu a close ally and said she would not meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin for peace talks if Ukraine was not also represented, during a wide-ranging sit-down interview that aired on Monday.With the presidential race between Harris and Donald Trump effectively dead-locked, Harris has launched an unusually robust media blitz, which includes popular podcasts, talk radio, a battleground state town hall, daytime television, late night shows and Monday's network sit-down on CBS's 60 Minutes prime-time election special. Continue reading...
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed changed her plea in exchange for a reduced sentence for carrying a gun into a barThe weapons supervisor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film Rust pleaded guilty Monday to a separate criminal charge of carrying a gun into a licensed liquor establishment.Movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed agreed to change her plea to guilty on the charge in exchange for a reduced sentence of 18 months supervised probation. Continue reading...
Republican nominee says attack - one of the darkest days in all history' - would not have happened if he were presidentDonald Trump marked the first anniversary of the 7 October Hamas terrorist attacks, which he called one of the darkest days in all of history", with a commemoration for victims and hostages at his golf resort in Miami on Monday night, but swiftly turned the event into an attack on Kamala Harris.He also repeated a previous claim that the attack on Israel would never have happened if he was still in the White House. Continue reading...
Misinformation spread by Trump, his supporters and others about the hurricane has shrouded recovery effortsA slew of falsehoods about Hurricane Helene, including claims of funds diverted from storm survivors to migrants and even that Democrats somehow directed the hurricane itself, have hampered the response to one of the deadliest hurricanes to ever hit the US, the nation's top emergency official has warned.Misinformation spread by Donald Trump, his supporters and others about the hurricane has shrouded the recovery effort for communities shattered by Helene, which tore through five states causing at least 230 deaths and tens of billions of dollars of damage. Many places, such as in western North Carolina, are still without a water supply, electricity, navigable roads or vital supplies. Continue reading...
Aide says Republican governor is dodging contact with vice-president over Helene recovery because it seemed political'Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida is reportedly refusing calls about storm recovery from Kamala Harris, more than a week after Hurricane Helene hit the state and two days before intensifying Hurricane Milton is expected to hit the south-west of the state.Citing a DeSantis aide, NBC News reported on Monday that the Republican governor was dodging the Democratic presidential nominee's calls because they seemed political". Continue reading...
Vice-president commits to always' support Israel's defense as Biden condemns vicious surge in antisemitism' in USUS politicians on both sides of the aisle issued statements marking the anniversary of the 7 October attacks, with Kamala Harris paying tribute to the victims and calling, in their honor, to never lose sight of the dream of peace, dignity, and security for all".Outside the vice-presidential residence, Harris, accompanied by her husband, spoke of the nearly 1,200 people, including 46 Americans, killed in Israel one year ago. Continue reading...
Far-right congresswoman says they control the weather' as top disaster relief official decries those making false claimsFar-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is facing condemnation following several conspiratorial comments amid the devastation of Hurricane Helene that seemed to suggest she believed the US government can control the weather.In a post last week shared with her 1.2 million X followers, the US House representative from Georgia wrote: Yes they can control the weather. It's ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can't be done." Continue reading...
Some local residents saw stark differences' between the responses of the presidential candidates vying for visibilityMayor Garnett Johnson didn't want to put his troubles in front of people wrestling with despair in his community of Augusta, Georgia. On Friday, he was upbeat as he spoke about shelter availability and repair trucks a week after Hurricane Helene mowed down trees and ripped roofs off of houses, leaving half the city without power. But as he talked about unburying Augusta while helping hand out boxes of grapes and bananas and carrots in a church parking lot to a line of cars stretching a mile and a half, he let something slip.We got seven confirmed deaths as a result of Hurricane Helene. I personally was ... unfortunately, I had to witness one, but we're getting through it." Continue reading...
Luzerne county manager faced legal pressure to reverse her decision to eliminate them over security concernsA battleground county in north-eastern Pennsylvania will have ballot drop boxes this fall after its county manager faced pressure and reversed her decision to eliminate them.The announcement on Friday came less than a month after Romilda Crocamo, the county manager in Luzerne county, said she was getting rid of the county's four drop boxes over concerns the county could not secure them. I cannot secure the drop boxes. And, you know, sometimes I have to make difficult decisions," she said in an interview last month. Continue reading...
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Rise in status of non-contact version of US gridiron game sparks hunt for talent in Britain's schools and parksMolly Winter threw a perfect spiral pass for a 30-yard touchdown for Great Britain under-15s against France at an empty Tottenham Hotspur stadium on Monday. In 2028 the west London schoolgirl could be doing the same in a packed arena beneath the lights at the Los Angeles Olympics.The rise to Olympic status of flag football, a non-contact version of the US gridiron game, has sparked a hunt for talent in schools and parks. The game's roughly 80,000 British participants suddenly have a plausible shot at Olympic glory. Continue reading...
Howard Lutnick, co-chair of Trump's transition team, says potential appointees are all going to be on the same side'A senior official on Donald Trump's campaign has said any appointees in a second Trump administration would need to prove fidelity and loyalty".The official also sought to distance the former president from Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation plan calling for a far-right federal government in the event of a Trump victory at the voting polls in November. Continue reading...
Becky Hammon blamed her team's foiled three-peat bid on her players being fricking celebrities'. A return the top won't be easy, even with the world's best playerAround this time last year the Las Vegas Aces appeared to be on the brink of becoming a dynasty. They'd just brushed aside the New York Liberty to become the first WNBA team to win back-to-back championships in more than two decades, reducing a much-hyped clash of the superteams to one-way traffic. Those Aces were one of the best teams ever seen in men's or women's basketball, at least since the KD Warriors. It wasn't just their 34 regular-season wins (more than any WNBA team in history) or their record-breaking efficiency numbers. It was the execution, the intensity, the discipline and attention to detail: they were so unselfish, so dialed-in and everyone looked like they were having a blast. Their vaunted core four of A'ja Wilson, Kelsey Plum, Jackie Young and Chelsea Gray were each under contract for at least another year. What could go wrong?But the Aces' bid for a three-peat never quite left the launchpad. Candace Parker re-signed during free agency, before announcing her retirement at the start of training camp. They stumbled to a 6-6 start while Gray worked her way back from a foot injury suffered during last year's WNBA finals, racking up as many losses in the first month as they did all of last year. Wilson continued to show that she is the best player on the planet, earning a third Most Valuable Player award and becoming only the second player to win it unanimously, but Las Vegas were too often undone by backcourt inconsistency and the loss of their defensive identity. Wilson hinted at that back in August after her 42-point eruption was wasted in a defeat to one of the league's worst teams. Continue reading...
Erik ten Hag is far from alone in finding Old Trafford degenerating into a swirl of confusion around himOn Sunday, Aston Villa, fifth in the table, perhaps drained after Wednesday's euphoric win over Bayern Munich, drew 0-0 against a lower mid-table side. Under normal circumstances that wouldn't get the pulses racing, particularly not on a day when Brighton came from 2-0 down to beat Tottenham and Chelsea against Nottingham Forest degenerated into a 15-man melee. But this is Manchester United we're talking about.At some point, perhaps, the fascination will fade, but more than 11 years since Sir Alex Ferguson left, the soap opera remains as compelling as ever. How can the most successful team in English league history, the club with the highest average attendances, have got things so badly, so consistently, wrong? The basic law of football is that money rises, that the rich eventually prevail: for United to defy that basic truth for so long represents a remarkable commitment to mismanagement.This is an extract from Soccer with Jonathan Wilson, a weekly look from the Guardian US at the game in Europe and beyond. Subscribe for free here. Jonathan will answer your questions in next week's edition: if you have a question for him, email soccerwithjw@theguardian.com, or reply directly to this email, and he'll answer the best. Continue reading...
Friends of mine in the Israeli peace camp express the hope that out of such great tragedy could come a peaceful resolutionOctober 7 is a day of mourning. For Israelis, it is a reminder they remain a broken nation, with 101 hostages (many, perhaps half, presumed dead) still held in Gaza, and a dangerous escalation in the north as Israel battles Hezbollah. As one friend wrote to me today: Just when we think it can't get worse, it does."There is Gaza: the heartbreak, massive civilian deaths, homelessness and hunger, resulting from the IDF invasion after 7 October, even as Hamas fights on and the Netanyahu government refuses to articulate a viable exit strategy.Jo-Ann Mort is co-author of Our Hearts Invented a Place: Can Kibbutzim Survive in Today's Israel? She writes frequently about Israel for US, UK and Israeli publicationsDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...
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