Ramadan coming. Gazans starving. U.S. policy in chaos. Hamas sketches political future.

Dr. Khaled Qadomi, in a screengrab from the recent interview he gave to British Channel 4 tv

These past couple of days have seen several important revelations and analyses related to Israel’s still-continuing genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza. I don’t have time to delve deeply into any of them. But here, to help establish a record, is information about four such revelations/analyses that I see as most consequential:

• The WaPo’s (still incomplete) revelations about the scale of Washington’s recent arms transfers to Israel
• Biden admin whisperer reveals the chaos in U.S. policy
• The humanitarian crisis in Gaza, especially in the north, worsens
• Spox Dr. Khaled Qadomi lays out Hamas’s negotiating terms

The WaPo’s (still incomplete) revelations about the scale of Washington’s recent arms transfers to Israel

This report appeared on the WaPo’s website yesterday. The lede was:

The United States has quietly approved and delivered more than 100 separate foreign military sales to Israel since the Gaza war began Oct. 7, amounting to thousands of precision-guided munitions, small-diameter bombs, bunker busters, small arms and other lethal aid, U.S. officials told members of…