The suffering we’re seeing among innocent men, women and children breaks my heart. The question is, what is to be done? We ve made judgments about how we thought we could be most effective in trying to shape this in ways to get more humanitarian assistance to people, to get better protections and minimize civilian casualties. And at every step along the way, not only have we impressed upon Israel its responsibilities to do that, we’ve seen some progress in areas where, absent our engagement, I don’t believe it would have happened.

This is his hand wringing at its worst. He must know that his boss, the absent minded president, could stop this with a phone call. Oh, God, where does one start? Is it humanitarian assistance? And then you provide the bombs that give rise to the need for the emergency assistance. Come on, Mr. Secretary, it’s your bombs. You sign the order to bypass the congress to give the weapons to Israel.

Stop the weapons, then the fighting stops. This is what presidents do, by the way. This is what Kissinger did after the war in 1973, which was a prelude to the peace agreement reached in 1978 between Israel and Egypt. The United States intervened and said, stop the fighting. This is what President Eisenhower did in 1956. After the crazy hairbrained scheme of Britain, France and Israel to invade Egypt in 1956, Eisenhower told them, hey, stop now.

And they stopped because they could not resist the United States. That’s what leadership is. We don’t need the secretary of state wringing his hands. We need the fighting to stop. .

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