bighairymike: The US and the rest of the world should recognize the necessity to get it over with and give Israel the space and time to do what needs to be done.

Support for Israel is cratering. Currently, only 1/3 of Americans believe America should back Israel in its Gaza attack and those Americans who believe America should be "a neutral mediator" has risen to 39%.

According to polling by Reuters/Ipsos released Wednesday, support for Israel among the U.S. public has dropped by nearly 10 percent in the past month. In a Reuters/Ipsos poll taken shortly after the current siege began last month, 41 percent said that the U.S. should back Israel in its attack. Now, in a two-day poll that ended Tuesday, less than a third of respondents, or just 32 percent, said the same. This drop was seen among both Democrats and Republicans.

Further, the poll found that 39 percent of Americans think that the U.S. "should be a neutral mediator," a 12 percent increase in the number who think so since last month.

Images of 31 premature babies at Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza was difficult for most people to watch. And the fact that those babies were transferred out of Gaza to Egypt for treatment didn't make quite the same news splash. (One of the babies did not transfer to Egypt as his parents are currently in northern Gaza; there was some reporting that two babies did not survive the journey.)

Anyway, it's nice to be a Keyboard General but the reality of the situation is not simply a matter of giving "Israel the space and time to do what needs to be done."

cnn.com - Gaza al shifa hospital babies evacuated intl hnk