It is interesting how President Donald Trump keeps whining about the 20 alleged Israeli hostages that are reportedly still held by Hamas in Gaza, demanding that they be released immediately, while ignoring the hundreds of unarmed Palestinians that are being murdered daily by Israeli military and armed contractors, as well as by deliberate starvation.

Also, the thousands of Palestinians who had nothing to do with Hamas or Gaza and are nevertheless being held without charge in Israeli prisons under horrific conditions, including torture, are of no interest to the US president and his team. Trump is of course profoundly ignorant, demonstrated most recently during his 55 minute rambling speech to the United Nations General Assembly in which he attacked both the UN institutionally as well as nearly every delegate and nation represented in the room, minus the Palestinians, of course, for whom he had blocked the issuance of visas guaranteeing that they would have no voice or presence in New York.

Trump's recent performances have also reflected an increase in his demands to harden sanctions and isolate Russia economically, something which is in no one's interest but the odious President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and the powerful Jewish lobby in the US and Europe.

Never satisfied with anything that he encounters where he is not kowtowed to or flattered, Trump is now having the US Secret Service investigate alleged United Nations sabotage behind three alleged personal insults experienced by him during his UN visit, including a non-functioning escalator stairway, a failure of the auditorium sound system, and a misfunction of the teleprompter (which was apparently being operated by a White House staffer). An always low-class Trump characteristically threatened the teleprompter operator personally by stopping his speech and announcing to the entire assembly "Whoever is operating this teleprompter is in big trouble."