Chinese Influencer Seizes on US Dispute Over Israel-Hamas War to Agitate for Communism
The United States last week ramped up peace brokering efforts between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, and delivered food aid to Gaza, after the United Nations reported starvation and a rising death toll in the monthslong war. On March 3, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris called the situation in Gaza “a humanitarian catastrophe” and urged an immediate cease-fire. Harris called on Hamas to release Israeli hostages and criticized Israel for “not doing enough” to ease the situation in Gaza. “The Israeli government must do more to significantly increase the flow of aid. No excuses,” Harris said in a speech that Reuters described as “the sharpest rebuke yet by a senior leader in the U.S. government over the conditions in the coastal enclave.” U.S. service members secure humanitarian aid, bound for airdrop over Gaza, onto a cargo aircraft at an undisclosed location within the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, March 1, 2024. (U.S. Air Force Handout) With large pro-Palestinian marches taking to the streets across U.S. cities, some protests have taken extreme forms. …