This is a very sad development, imagine this in the time of Raul Wallenberg (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Wallenberg) or Harald Edelstam (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Edelstam)

Embassies are sacrosanct because you don’t shoot the messenger, then there would be no diplomacy.

Original title was too long:

Are embassies off-limits? Ecuadorian and Israeli actions suggest otherwise − and that sets a dangerous diplomatic precedent

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It’s become clear. Israel has become to the US as North Korea is to China. All trust is lost, which guarantees support must continue to keep them from going further off the reservation with expanded consequences at far greater expenses.