Meanwhile on the International front....

Is this going to screw up the golf league?

 

Whats happening in Israel looks to be a Holy War mixed with a proxy war with Iran and Russia bankrolling the Hamas effort. Russia seems very eager to see this thing be a huge drain on the West to help distract from Ukraine.

 

Israeli minister suspended over Gaza 'nuclear' comments

The nuts Bibi allowed into his government keep making their true intentions known.

 

In the Middle East, as in Greek tragedy, justice must prevail over moral absolutism | Kenan Malik

 

Blinken Meets With Palestinian and Iraqi Leaders in Bid to Contain Gaza War

 

Here’s how to think about a cease-fire in Gaza

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/05/gaza-ceasefire-israel-hamas/

Israel’s legitimate war aims do not include reoccupying Gaza or expelling its population. Nor are Palestinians generally its enemy — only Hamas. Israel’s highest officials need to make that clear to the world, repeatedly. Israeli politicos who suggest otherwise need to be disavowed. Israel has to swiftly contain violence against Palestinians by settlers on the West Bank. These are strategic as well as moral imperatives: Israeli success hinges in part on preserving as much of the world’s sympathy as possible. To be sure, there are many who closed their minds to the Jewish state’s arguments long ago, or never opened them at all. Yet Oct. 7 showed fair-minded citizens of both the real dangers Israel faces and the character of its enemies, generating support the country’s leaders can help sustain.

Far over the horizon lies this war’s end, difficult to visualize but necessary to contemplate, if only because no war can be judged except in light of its plausible objectives. Defeat for Hamas is neither guaranteed nor, if achieved, sufficient for lasting peace. That would also require stable governance and security in Gaza, perhaps supervised by an interim Arab and Muslim peacekeeping force. There would have to be an end to both the Hamas tunnel network and the Egyptian-Israeli blockade on Gaza. There could be an enhanced administrative role for the admittedly troubled Palestinian Authority, and elections. Then would come — sooner rather than later — serious diplomacy aimed at Palestinian statehood, side by side with Israel, in peace.

 

Interesting, but better if they included that Netanyahu has criticized and suspended Elyahu. (Yes, he should have been fired, but I don't know how that process works for his position.)

 

Remnick:

In the Cities of Killing

 

Presumably Netanyahu suspended Eliyahu - for suggesting Israel nuke Gaza - after this piece went to press. Netanyahu suspends a minister who said that dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza was an option.

None of which changes the reference to Eliyahu in the piece.

 

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Scoop: Israel assures U.S. new M16s won't go to West Bank settlers

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/06/israel-m16-sales-biden-west-bank-settlements

 

Today's acronym is brought to you by Doctors without Borders. It's WCNSF and is used in Gaza's remaining hospitals. Stands for Wounded Child, No Surviving Family. I don't know where or even if those kids are gonna grow up, but those that do I doubt will be committed to a peaceful solution in the Middle East.

 

Meanwhile white Evangelicals are lining up to adopt these children because God told them to do so. God surely told the Israelis to murder these kids’ parents, too.