@Alon @phillmv @stevenbodzin @BenRossTransit but once that happened, their strategy has been to make the most of it in terms of inflaming passions, on the (somewhat thin) hope of broadening the war. and i think in that, Israel has been more a partner than it ought to be (and i think the Biden admin deserves some respect for a so-far successful combination of diplomacy and deterrence, despite the scale of horror broadcast to populations in the region). /fin