'Killing tens of thousands of people makes you pretty damn evil,' El-Sayed told CNN congressional reporter Manu Raja on the network's Inside Politics program. 'It's not how evil is this one versus that one – Hamas: Evil, Israeli government: Evil. We can say both'

To Israelis, the words 'security zone' evoke difficult memories of 18 years in the Lebanese quagmire and continuous friction that exacted a heavy price. Today, it seems the only thing that has changed is the terminology

Had Israel acted rationally following the cease-fire in late 2024, it would have refrained from hunting down Lebanese, coordinated a withdrawal from the territory it had occupied with the Lebanese government and opened the way for the country's reconstruction. But obviously that sounds like a sorry joke