It's the Brian Laira show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. With us now, Jerry She,

the Jerusalem Bureau Chief of the Washington Post, covering Israel, the Palestinian territories, and the

greater Middle East, with so much happening in the region right now. How can we go through

even the list of all the headlines just in the last few weeks? Here are some, the even deeper

humanitarian crisis in Gaza. President Trump's recent trip to the region that made headlines

for the alleged corruption in the business deals he was making in Arab countries and taking

that airplane to use as Air Force One with promises of what in return people are asking.

Also, his overtures to Iran on a nuclear deal and bypassing Israel on both his deepening relationships

with Arab countries and bypassing Israel's opposition to an Iran deal and saying the U.S.

will stop attacking the Houthis, even though the Houthis vow to continue attacking Israel.

But at the same time, Trump is doing nothing to stop Israel from escalating

the war in Gaza, nothing that we know of, escalating it even more, including reportedly

citing Trump's plan to remove Palestinians from the territory. There was the murder of the two

Israel embassy staffers in Washington. Of course, it

happened in the U.S., but it's related. And the reports of individual horrors in Gaza, like the

bombing that killed nine children in the same family, according to multiple reports, that Israel says

it's investigating. We have Syria, of all places, suddenly being open to warmer

relations with Israel, but Canada, France, and the UK, relatively allied with Israel for many years,

threatening sanctions over the war in Gaza. And just today, former Israeli Prime Minister,

Ehud Olmert, was on Morning Edition, accusing his own

country's government of war crimes. He wrote an op-ed to that effect in an Israeli newspaper.

He cited two main reasons for the war crimes accusation, one, the failure to address the food

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