On a security clown and other clowns – Harel in Haaretz:

‘Our national security clown, the minister responsible for the firefighting services, didn't bother showing up at the scene. Instead, Itamar Ben-Gvir opted to be interviewed on his home television station, Channel 14, and later, he was seen at a musical performance at Sultan's Pool in Jerusalem.’

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‘The night of the fires in the Galilee was simply another, more extreme, expression of the mess that the war, which will be eight months old on Friday, has degenerated into. Immediately after Hezbollah began attacking the Galilee following Hamas' attack in the south, the government and the Israel Defense Forces decided to evacuate some 60,000 people from the area near the northern border.
But since then, Israel has been caught in a strategic trap up north. It has proven unable to force Hezbollah into a cease-fire as long as the fighting in Gaza continues, whereas the Lebanese organization has managed to create a kind of "security zone" devoid of residents inside Israeli territory, despite suffering much higher losses than the IDF has.
The fires were predictable; fires also broke out during the Second Lebanon War of 2006 (and in fact, virtually every other IDF exercise in the Golan Heights during the summer starts fires as well). The dry summertime vegetation ignites easily, and firefighters have limited ability to fight the blazes when Hezbollah's rockets and drones make it hard to operate firefighting planes.’

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‘The U.S. administration thinks that signing a deal on a cease-fire and the return of the hostages in the south will enable an immediate cease-fire in the north, during which speedy negotiations would be held over a diplomatic agreement that would distance Hezbollah's Radwan commando unit from the border. Naim Qassem, Hezbollah's deputy secretary general, told Al Jazeera television on Tuesday that his organization isn't interested in all-out war, but isn't afraid of it should Israel start one.
Dr. Shimon Shapira, an expert on Hezbollah, said that despite the casualties it has suffered, the Shi'ite organization doesn't think it's losing the war. It draws encouragement from the complaints of northern mayors about the deterioration of the security situation. Hezbollah, he added, has also signaled that it's willing to intensify its fire to help Hamas extort concessions from Israel in the negotiations over a deal in the south.’

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‘Against Israel, the U.S. administration is wielding hints about the possibility that decisions by the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court could be translated into UN Security Council resolutions. That would be a move with teeth, and could even result in international sanctions on Israel. The possibility of the International Criminal Court issuing arrest warrants for Israeli officials is also keeping Netanyahu and other senior officials awake at night.’

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‘The only thing his office produces are carefully crafted video clips in which the prime minister seems disconnected from reality outside.
In an interview published in Time magazine on Tuesday, Biden was asked whether Netanyahu is prolonging the war in Gaza out of political considerations. Biden, whose age and status apparently exempt him from considerations of diplomatic protocol, replied, "There is every reason for people to draw that conclusion." Sometimes, it's necessary to say what's self-evident.’

Read the article here.

The continuation of the war for political reasons i.e. in order for Netanyahu to survive politically, that part of reality must have been clear to anybody with eyes and ears weeks if not months ago.

Part of the electorate is as rotten as the politicians that thanks to these citizens are put in power.

Waiting for another electorate, in the hope that the catastrophe in the meantime will be moderate enough.