More War
All eyes will be on Israel this week.
Concerns of a wider regional conflagration were pervasive following Hamas's brazen surprise attack which briefly back footed the IDF, conjuring (misplaced) Yom Kippur references and raising uncomfortable questions in the intelligence community, chief among them the simplest: Why did no one see this coming?
One answer might be that Israel was distracted by internal strife tied to an unpopular proposal to overhaul judicial oversight. The effort, castigated b
You could argue that civilization on civilization violence began in the Middle East region thousands and thousands of years ago and still humans are no closer to stopping it. And I would emphasize the ‘no closer’ bit. That’s an abysmal record for an ‘intelligent’ species.
Our dear Saudi friends will likely side with Israel.
MBS and BiBi share a fear of Shia Iran.
Let the conspiracy theories roll…….Likud left the door open on the southern front in order to quell the reservists/secular revolts on the judiciary and to set up an ethnic cleansing campaign on West Bank/Gaza to get rolled out asap. There is NO WAY IDF/Mossad intel and all the border shIT and defenses were breached without it being an inside job. Likud and the settlers don’t consider the kibutznicks and peace ravers on the southern front to be really Jewish anyway…….
If Gaza is an open sewer and is blockaded on both the Israeli and Egyptian sides, why didn’t Hamas now or ever attack on the Egyptian side? Think about that one for the moment?
There’s nothing on the Egyptian side but a few small towns along the coast miles away. No targets for randomly aimed missiles and no journalists for publicity. That bear’s not worth poking.
Maybe that’s because Egypt never displaced any Palestinians from their land to create a new country. Still, there was a lot more that Egypt could have done to help, but then it would be seen as accepting the status-quo via-a-vis territorial losses by the Palestinians since the 1967 borders.
H-Man, once again inhumanity to people surfaces again. You can call it another mid-east spat but this one has the potential to move the needle far beyond that description. Israel will seek revenge and it becomes a question of how much blood will be spilled. And right now it looks like the eye for an eye will be more akin to a bodies for bodies. Israel will get the bodies and Iran is in the scope. This has all the makings to be a conflagration that decimates mankind in the mid-east.
The $6BN is in restricted accounts in Qatar banks, to be released only for humanitarian expenditures, so obvs played no part in this attack and I’d speculate getting any of those funds released anytime soon is going to be hard indeed.
Oil futures up $4 overnight, unsurprising.
Iran is behind this attack – everyone knows that and most importantly Israel knows it – and if Hezzbollah joins in, Iran will be behind that too. What would trigger Israeli strikes on Iran, and would targets include oil infrastructure – the $120 question.
Given that Israel is considered the gold standard, this event should throw some cold water on the whole notion that walls are the epitome of a security structure.