Two juxtaposed headlines today on CNN:
Israel accepts new US proposal for ceasefire with Hamas, says Israeli official
Right, Israel is just buying time while it kills or exiles more Palestinians from Gaza. Any similar Russian agreement to ceasefire in Ukraine will go the same way.
This is followed by
Israel approves biggest expansion of West Bank settlements in decades.
This means that the Israeli invasion of the West Bank is not only continuing, but is being ramped up. (some 60,000 of the “settlers” are American citizens; the Americans provide the leadership for state-sponsored terror on the West Bank).