I'm John Bachelors with my colleague Mary Kessel, Executive Vice President

Stevens Incorporated, former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State,

Gaza.

Fog of war.

Right now, the Cun Yunus combat continues.

The air drops have started again, and this time the U.S.

is supplementing the air drops along the ocean front

because that avoids conflict with the combatants

charging the air drops might be perceived as aggressors.

It was an incident involving trucks earlier in these last days that led to deaths because of stampedes and trucks

running over people. The air drops are very iffy. They are not feeding one or

two million people at best and there's always the question of those air drops

falling into the hands of Hamas. We're told in these last hours that the

negotiations in Cairo over the hostages have broken down and have either ended or been suspended.

We're also told that Hezbollah increasingly being pummeling the north has now killed one maybe two visiting farm workers and I was

told they were killed deliberately who knows it's of war. I only mentioned all these incidents

because we can't come to a conclusion over the Gaza War, but I do ask Mary to comment on what

I've learned is an overwhelming surge of anti-Semitism

across the planet. 3,000% increase in Europe, 600% increase in the United States, including in public schools.

Mary, is this something that can be contained by Washington?

Is this something we can speak to from the National Post that

Mr Biden could speak to at the State of the Union or is it too chaotic for that right now?

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