Jeffrey Sachs

Uh,

I didn't accuse Israel of what it's doing to others.

That's implicit, perhaps, in what I was saying, but I said it's committing suicide because it's taking such a violent extremist course that it's putting it outside of the bounds

of civilization outside of the bounds of opinion in all parts of the world, putting it outside of international law.

and relying entirely on the United States to do that, because if Israel did this on its own, it would be immediately suicidal.

It wouldn't stand for a day.

It thinks the United States is going to support this extremism on an unending, unconditional basis.

But you and I know that's not true.

Americans are sickened by this extremism.

They're sickened by the tens of thousands of innocent deaths in Gaza.

They're disgusted with this war in Iran.

They're disgusted with the trillions of dollars that the United States has spent for Israel's clean break.

We're sick of it.

Most Americans are just sick of this right now.

We see, nobody supports what's going on right now.

And wait four weeks if they don't choose the off-ramp in the next few days.

Wait a few weeks what it's going to be like when their incomes are decimated, when the world's economy is in a tailspin because suddenly they realize in four weeks half the Gulf has been blown to pieces.

What are they going to say then?

So how is this going to be sustained when just Americans basically don't want to be the agents of mass murder and mass suffering?

And most of us don't