In Israel military and political leaders are sweating blood trying to thread a needle that has no eye; how to rescue hostages, kill the Hamas leadership and its psychopathic foot soldiers, minimize \u201ccivilian\u201d Palestinian deaths and protect their own troops from harm while accomplishing all this in an urban environment that resembles some hellish first-person shooter video game.\u00a0 Chances to accomplish all of these objectives is objectively zero.\u00a0 And they know that.\u00a0 The real mission is to destroy Hamas while not failing catastrophically at the other objectives.<\/p>\n
Of course, if they fail at that primary objective then all the other failures; deaths of soldiers, hostages and civilians will have been in vain and therefore infinitely worse.\u00a0 And they approach this mission with the knowledge that Hamas orchestrated this cataclysm for the express result that they would get to kill a lot of Israeli soldiers without the Israelis achieving their goal of eradicating Hamas from Gaza.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure the IDF knows all this.\u00a0 For that reason, I\u2019m guessing that they will resist the pressure brought to bear by Israeli peaceniks, moderate Arab state leaders and Joe Biden, that the battle in Gaza be limited and without result.\u00a0 But that\u2019s my assumption.\u00a0 All past experience has been that Gaza is an insoluble problem that cannot be resolved. \u00a0Time will certainly tell.<\/p>\n
In the House of Representatives word is that many of the establishment leaders are bowing to necessity and approving Jim Jordan\u2019s bid to become Speaker.\u00a0 Here, I don\u2019t even have an inkling about what will happen.\u00a0 As far as I can tell most of these politicians are crooks who only follow orders from their paymasters so it\u2019s impenetrable to me.\u00a0 Maybe the need to come up with an aid package for Israel will force the establishment shills to accept Jordan against their wills in order to allow the legislation they want to proceed.\u00a0 Possibly some good will come of this accident of timing.\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard Jim Jordan is supposed to be the one in ten thousand, honest man.\u00a0 I hope he is and I wish him well.\u00a0 What I do hope is that he draws the line at further funding for Ukraine.\u00a0 After all I think it\u2019s only fair that we restrict our support to one major war at a time.\u00a0 Ukraine has had their chance.\u00a0 Now let them work it out with the Russians.\u00a0 If that\u2019s still possible.<\/p>\n
Joe Biden is going to Israel.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll regale them with tales of his service at the battle front in 1948, 1967 and 1973.\u00a0 He might even relate the story of his hand-to-hand duel against the dastardly Arab terrorist Corn Al-Pop.\u00a0 He was one bad dude.<\/p>\n
Joe Biden in the Holy Land.\u00a0 Surely the Lord of the Old Testament has some lightning, earthquake and brimstone saved up for just such a contingency.\u00a0 I mean, Joe is like some local representative of Sodom or Gomorrah showing up after a local atrocity.\u00a0 Turning Dr Jill into a salt pillar seems like letting him off light.\u00a0 But politics makes for strange bedfellows.<\/p>\n
The election and Trump indictment news moves along on the expected trajectories.\u00a0 The more certain that Trump will be imprisoned the more certain that his support among Republican voters will increase.\u00a0 It\u2019s like some fateful confluence of irresistible forces is dragging us to a crisis that can only be resolved by a radical shift in the status quo.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s an illusion but it seems that we won\u2019t be splitting the difference this time.\u00a0 It appears that the system is breaking down catastrophically.\u00a0 Now I say appears because as has been mentioned innumerable times before, there is an awful lot of ruin in a world empire.\u00a0 But short of armed intervention by the military it seems like people are getting fed up with the dysfunction that has been imposed on the whole country.\u00a0 But we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n
Anyway, that\u2019s what I have to remark on today.\u00a0 More madness and more dysfunction.\u00a0 More of the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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