this offensive in rafah. and, you know, the potential for bloodshed is huge. james landale in jerusalem there for us. earlier i spoke about the importance of the us aid both to ukraine and israel to niall stanage, who is white house columnist for us political website, the hill. as the war was dragged on, we have seen republican support really eb very considerably for the notion of aiding ukraine particularly at the intensity that we have seen so far. you see this in opinion polls, it's not only limited to elected officials, over half of republican voters believe the aid to ukraine should be decreased. we saw that reflected in the house of representatives vote where, in fact, slightly more republicans voted against aid for ukraine then voted for it but overall it passed