A couple of comments from hopefully-not-erstwhile allies of Israel and the US:

Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, the United Arab Emirates UN envoy and the linchpin of Arab diplomacy in New York, told the security council this week: “We support a humanitarian ceasefire not at the expense of Israel security but so that people can tend to the wounded, bury their dead and begin to put their lives back together.

“Hamas is indeed responsible for sparking this latest fire that is now engulfing the streets of Arab capitals around the region. We have called them out openly for their heinous attacks but, make no mistake, the kindling was already there, fuelled by decades of violent dehumanisation, dispossession and despair. That is why we cannot, however convenient, lose sight of the context of this crisis: the longest-going occupation in the world by people who do not want to be ruled and have been let down again and again and again by all of us.”

Prince al-Faisal the former Saudi ambassador to the US, speaking in Washington, said: “I’ve been hearing a repeated phrase in American media: unprovoked attack. What more provocation is required to make it provoked than what Israel has done to the Palestinians over three-quarters of a century?