‘A punch to the gut’: The US failure to defend Israel at the UN

“The Quad” discusses the repercussions of the United States abstaining last week from a U.N. ceasefire resolution. Is the U.S./Israel relationship at risk? Will this invite more diplomatic attacks on the Jewish state? Also, why is Washington attempting to stop Israel from entering Rafah, in the southernmost part of the Gaza Strip, to eradicate the last of Hamas’s strongholds?

They interview Olga Deutsch, vice president of NGO Monitor, to talk about international aid and so-called human-rights organizations that are vilifying Israel and the Jewish community. What can be done in this impossible political landscape in which Israel is being made a pariah?

And, of course, they declare the Scumbags and Heroes of the Week!