Thank you for your honest, anguished, and balanced assessment of the primordial horror unfolding now in the Levant. Netanyahu and his belligerent, ultra-right wing cronies remind me of the cynical advice that the dying Henry IV gives to his heir (Henry V) in Shakespeare: “to busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels.” This is the same approach taken by Putin in invading Ukraine, and by Bush II, after he stole the 2000 election, in invading Afghanistan and Iraq. In each case, these morally bankrupt leaders use war to shore up support for their regimes. I have no doubt that the negligence that allowed for this ghastly massacre by Hamas was part of their plan…