This came out of what Haaretz’es publisher said at a conference in London. Not out of something published in the paper.

Do you think I’m talking about Iran’s bombs? 😂

Most of the world yes. But in this one where the quantities, types and prices of the bombs used literally depend on the American election, it probably influences decision-making.

I don’t know why would Iran attack before the election since that could boost Trump’s chances and Trump would be worse for them. Perhaps this is an attempt by Israel to nudge the election towards him?

Ok, then why don’t we apply this logic to democratically electing politicians?

While not entirely wrong, I’d take anything out of free market fundamentalists mouths like the ones at Mises with a gain of salt.

The interest rates are already falling and most have weathered the storm. The pressure needed to pop the bubble is being relieved so I doubt it’s going to blow up. Rather I think we’ll see a long sideways movement.

“Gift card”

I don’t see the name “Hungary” mentioned anywhere in the article.

On the surface - perhaps. But Iran’s regime has to keep its image of power for its domestic peace. Israel’s gov knows this and they do steps they know would elicit response from Iran in the hopes Iran would actually hit hard and the US would be dragged in official capacity. That would be dramatically destabilizing for the region. I reckon the US threatened Israel with real steps in order to get them to not hit targets that would have led to such escalation.

Interesting show of restraint. I wonder if this was all pressure from the US or whether Israel is actually worried about the results of a conflict with Iran.

Sounds like a reasonable decision. The Hamas-run label was used to denote that the death toll coming out of the Gaza Health Ministry was not very trustworthy. The numbers have since been declared trustworthy by pretty much any credible agency around the world but the most invested hasbaristas. Therefore today the label has become misleading when it comes to this information. It adds uncertainty to trustworthy information which only serves the goals of the hasbaristas who seek to convince that the death toll is significantly lower.

It looks like it’s over.

Looks constrained so far. No energy targets. Yet.

It’s worked in the Arabian peninsula, why wouldn’t it work in Afghanistan?

Implications for the ongoing election as well as the war in Ukraine. Starlink comms likely provide important intelligence that Putin could use.

I’m surprised they he said it’s antidemocratic. I’d have expected antisemitic.

Probably both. If I were looking from the side and seeing Israel has a blank check and weapons from the US, casually bombing neighbouring capitals, I would consider mine could be next. The Arabs can probably also see the blatant racism displayed by parts of Israel’s government, a part that’s expected to grow.

Can they not trade with PRC now?

Oh the units conversion looks promising. Might replace Ultra Measure Master for me. I think it doesn’t quite work yet.

Is the author’s username a play on “jerkoff”? No his name is Jost Herkenhoff.