A ceasefire, putting the US-Israeli war with Iran on hold for two weeks. Nothing substantive achieved since war broke out on February 28. Cosmetic destruction. Loss of innocent lives. Israel more vulnerable.

Ceasefire in Lebanon part of the understanding. Israel understands differently. IDF planes returned from Iran now attack Hezbollah.

Version one of me opposed war with Iran. Immediately a war with Hezbollah too, for Israel. Free associations: In 1980-81, as a graduate student in Jerusalem, before Israel’s “Operation Peace for Galilee,” the first Lebanon War. A woman in my class, from Kiryat Shmona, with every Katyusha, pleading that other students from throughout Israel try to grasp the terror of daily life in Kiryat Shmona. Flashback to 1979, hitchhiking to Gaza, approaching Rafah, albeit not our intentional destination, but that’s an anecdote for another time. It took about 25 years until cities, towns,........

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