Six months into Israel's assault on Gaza in March 2024, when more than 120 Palestinians were being killed in air strikes each day, Broadway performer Allie Trimm was approached by the writer of a project she had just been fired from.

"You and I are not so different. We both don't want to see innocent people get hurt," the writer told her. "We just have a different idea of who's innocent."

The delegation of rabbis and other representatives, who had flown in from New York and New Jersey, enjoyed an intimate audience with the president, sitting directly across from him at the Resolute Desk, with Trump's Jewish son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in the room with them.

The emotions can quickly go from rage to resentment, to guilt and then back again - and they haven’t let up.

This is what's being referred to as a cycle of collective grief. Since Israel's yearlong war on enclave, and its bombing of West Bank and Lebanon, many are actively dissociating to cope.

Demonstrators sat cross-legged, linked arms and held up their hands clad in red gloves, while wearing masks made with cutouts of Netanyahu’s face. “Stop using our tax money to bomb Palestinians,” one of them shouted, while a hundred or so protesters huddled on the front steps chanted, “Stop the killing, stop the hate.”

The leader of one of the poorest countries in the world told a packed Newsmaker event Thursday evening at the National Press Club that greater investment by the U.S. private sector and government cooperation on projects can “show that Africa and America are working together.”