| Sorry, Richard, but your comment is yet another of the fallacies of distraction which you often employ (e.g. your penchant for whataboutery). It isn't more to the point, but it isn't totally irrelevant either. But consider this: if Netanyahu hadn't made his shameless and repugnant bombardment of Beirut after the ceasefire declaration, there would be no incentive for Iran to resume hostilities. Netanyahu has played Trump. First he convinced him to join in a treacherous attack on Iran whilst negotiations about its nuclear 'threat' were ongoing. Now that Trump has found an off-ramp from his escalating and unwillable war, Netanyahu is trying to perpetuate the hostilities and get Trump involved yet again, or at least hoping that a demoralised Trump, after the strategic disaster of the attack on Iran, will not complain if Netanyahu is willing to continue the fight on his own. |