The UNRWA says that, given the desperation for food of people in southern Gaza, they can't safely carry aid to northern Gaza.

The only place they can bring aid into Gaza is in the south, from Egypt, transporting a fraction of that insufficient aid across southern Gaza, meaning carrying it past injured and starving refugees, whose families will steal it.

As long as the aid is insufficient, and someone is going to starve, I suppose it makes no moral difference who draws the short straw, The real point is to bring in enough aid for everyone in Gaza.

The US could do that — it could land the aid on Gaza's shore by boat. It could land, each week, enough for everyone in Gaza for a week. Even Netanyahu would not dare attack the US aid force.

What it does require is boldness of spirit.

Let's not lose sight of where we want to end up.

Lukashenko, tyrant of Belarus, is holding bogus elections. All the candidates he permitted to run are his supporters.

*Mexico City may be just months away from running of out water.* It has been emptying an aquifer and now the aquifer is almost empty. Global heating has put most of Mexico into a drought. Decades of population growth has also contributed to creating this crisis.

*[16000 miles of] abandoned pipelines could release [large amounts of mercury and lead] into North Sea, scientists warn.*

* At [Julian Assange's extradition hearing], lawyers posed the pivotal question: how can exposing crime and torture be worse than committing them?*