Matthew A. Miller, Spokesman for the department of state, laughs at his own flippant joke, when asked by the national media about Israel meeting the 30-day request to drop it’s starvation blockade on the northern part of the Gaza Strip: “It’s not the end of the semester. You don’t give out—you don’t hand out grades in the middle.”
[added 1/10/2026] Thanks to Antiwar.com for this entry.
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State Department Spokesman Cracks Joke About Israel’s Starvation Blockade on Gaza – News From Antiwar.com
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/11/04/state-department-spokesman-cracks-joke-about-israels-starvation-blockade-on-gaza/