“Tel Aviv feels like Kiev in the first days of the war: scary and fearful”

While he expressed his support for Israel and met with victims’ families and emergency responders (the hospital incident notwithstanding, the death toll in Gaza is already over 3,000), he also called for restraint. Reminding them of America’s post-9/11 foreign policy debacle, he said: “After 9/11, we were angry in the United States. While we sought and received justice, we also made mistakes.” His British counterpart Rishi Sunak has since followed suit, landing in Israel last night and setting off for talks with its leaders today.