…Fortunately, the good news in the bad, was the response of parties that never responded like this, and one suspects the coming of Donald Trump has had an effect. The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process — such a lengthy title for a man who does nothing because there is no peace process — Nikolai Mladenov, the second time in recent weeks ,issued a statement shocking in its implicit siding with Israel! He said today, “It is unacceptable to indiscriminately fire at civilian communities. I am deeply concerned by today’s rockets fired by Palestinian militants towards southern Israel one of which hit close to a kindergarten. Such actions undermine efforts to improve the situation in Gaza.”

Likewise, the EU ambassador in Israel, one Emanuele Giaufret, also called the rocket volleys “as kids were preparing form school unacceptable and to be condemned unreservedly.”

I believe the major powers in Europe also condemned the rocket strikes…