Slogan
Director of Conflicts Forum; Former Senior British Diplomat; Author.
The dilemma for 'Israel' is, should the US say ‘no’ to a strike on Iran (and actually mean it), 'Israel' is left to wallow in a clutch of defeats on all six fronts, plus fraying public trust.
Israeli journalist, Yuval Abraham, has written a detailed, multiple-sourced detailing how the Israeli forces have marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination using an AI targeting system.
Just as the West failed to understand Russia, and was taken by surprise, so it is that the White House firmly ignores the Biblical ‘End of Times’ dimension to the Israeli ‘way of thinking about war’.
The details of the arrested perpetrators of the Crocus Concert Hall massacre and their mode of operation does not comport with the notion of their being ideological supporters of ISIS.
Schumer’s speech was less a bombshell in "Israel" than in the US as the paths of the Likud and Western Liberalism had long diverged.
Soon we become a people without memory of its past; a space ghosting shapes long broken or forgotten.
What is spooking the West more immediately is the cascading defeats inflicted on Ukrainian forces, after the Avdeevka rout.
Few in Washington seem to little appreciate ‘how deep-in’ they already are. Or, the extent and speed at which their options are vanishing, and are ineluctably tied to the fortunes of Netanyahu and his far-right coalition government.
‘Stupidity’ (and ignorance) reign. This might be an object of passing curiosity as to its precise psychological causes, were it not so consequential.
The explosive issue at the focus of the ICJ rulings likely will become the pivot to the new era -- likely one of struggle and schism in the West.