UN says Israeli tanks burst through gates of peacekeeper base

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5. The rules of engagement

for the peacekeepers need to be upgraded. Perhaps the perimeter areas need to be mined etc. But at least it should now be clear that the continuation of Israel as a member nation of the UN needs to be discussed. Of course the US will block any meaningful action but the discussion by the General Assembly would at least put them on the record and put the absurdity of having a member attack the organization itself. No member who militarily attacks the organization repeatedly should remain a member. The IDF does these things because they know there will be no resistance. The escalation of the US sending 100 American troops to be stationed in Israel manning an advanced missile defense system is not a recipe to convince the surrounding countries that we are sincere in wanting deescalation and peace. I would expect that at any time now some of those countries will "reassess" their more recent positions toward the West and we may well find that it will be to our detriment.

The question has been posed before whether the West was actually playing into a "good cop/bad cop" scenario perhaps unknowingly or perhaps not while the "bad cop Netanyahu" escalates and inflicts wildly disproportionate damage while the "good cop" West does it's best impression of Susan Collins and expresses "deep concern" while the conflagration erupts wider and wider and the ones expressing the "deep concern" and claiming to want to prevent a wider conflict keep pouring in weapons at a breakneck pace and seemingly limitless quantity.