Israel escalates. U.S. sends more weapons and troops. 200 arrested on Wall Street.

What happened to the claims of the Biden administration that that were making every effort to negotiated a ceasefire?

Was it all just BS?

Apparently so.

The United States is deploying an advanced, high-altitude missile system to Israel as well as around 100 American troops to operate it, the Pentagon announced in the first US military deployment to Israel since the war on Gaza began in October 2023.

Pentagon spokesperson Patrick Ryder said in a statement on Sunday that US President Joe Biden directed Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System (Thaad) along with its operating crew to Israel.

The deployment places American troops inside Israel for the first time amid its war on Gaza, which has now escalated into an Israeli invasion of Lebanon and carries the potential for a large-scale war with Iran.

Meanwhile the protests continue at home, even as the U.S. presidential election is only weeks away.

Yesterday, peace activists including Jewish Voice for Peace, organized an action of civil disobedience at the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street.

200 protesters were arrested, mostly Jewish.

Molly Crabapple, Debra Winger and Nan Golden arrested on Wall Street.

“Every day we watch a new Israeli war crime on our smartphones. Patients burned alive, still hooked up to their IVs. Prisoners gang raped. Buildings in central Beirut flattened and one fifth of Lebanon displaced. All in the name of this supremacist ideology that hijacks our history and faith.”