“Okay, guys,” I said. “Let’s talk Gaza for a moment. We all want this war to end and to get the hostages out, and I will work on it full-time when I am president, as I have been.” That morning, we woke to news of an Israeli strike that had killed at least eighty people in Gaza. As I left the hotel I took questions from the press in the parking lot, underlining yet again that even though Israel had every right to go after Hamas, far too many civilians were being killed and that Israel had a responsibility to avoid these deaths.
