Excellent piece with two ominous, overlooked(?) pieces left on the fiery chessboard: the Gog-Magog War, with Turkey and Russia drawn into the mix, and the Samson Option, which Israel, faced with an imminent, existential threat, would certainly employ. Frankly, I doubt this mess will devolve into WWIII. I believe a more likely case can be made for Divine intervention. Is it best to be blown to kingdom-come by a thermonuclear device, an EMP or an asteroid? 'Tis a worry.
The DOOM would have gone over the Email Limit; but yes I have plans on writing about a Wider War in a future piece! As for the Samson Option; the problem of course is simple:
'WHO do you hit?'
It can't be Gazah or the West Bank; those places are too close to 'Israeli' settlements & urban centres. If Syria, then Russia would respond. If Iraq, Yemen or Iran, Iran would respond using hundreds of thousands of conventional IRBMs.
Basically, there is no 'advantage' that the 'Israelis' can leverage here. They are going to keep sinking deeper & deeper into the Hole they have dug themselves in.
Excellent piece with two ominous, overlooked(?) pieces left on the fiery chessboard: the Gog-Magog War, with Turkey and Russia drawn into the mix, and the Samson Option, which Israel, faced with an imminent, existential threat, would certainly employ. Frankly, I doubt this mess will devolve into WWIII. I believe a more likely case can be made for Divine intervention. Is it best to be blown to kingdom-come by a thermonuclear device, an EMP or an asteroid? 'Tis a worry.
The DOOM would have gone over the Email Limit; but yes I have plans on writing about a Wider War in a future piece! As for the Samson Option; the problem of course is simple:
'WHO do you hit?'
It can't be Gazah or the West Bank; those places are too close to 'Israeli' settlements & urban centres. If Syria, then Russia would respond. If Iraq, Yemen or Iran, Iran would respond using hundreds of thousands of conventional IRBMs.
Basically, there is no 'advantage' that the 'Israelis' can leverage here. They are going to keep sinking deeper & deeper into the Hole they have dug themselves in.