Israel used the influence of its American supporters to quash American Jews' criticism of treatment of Palestinians.

*To Save US Democracy, Prioritize the Common Good.*

Democracy is weakened (and then threatened) by policies that serve specifically the plutocrats, rather than people in general.

Iran launched many missiles and drones against Israel.

Israel's attack on the Iranian consulate was not, in and of itself, a war crime. It was an attack on military personnel of a country which was already at war with Israel.

I don't know what specific targets Iran's missiles and drones were aimed at, but I don't see a reason why that attack would be a war crime. It seems that this is simply not war.

Judged in terms of its effects in the current context, Israel's attack was a manipulative provocation. Netanyahu must have figured that Iran would retaliate, and that this would give Israel an opportunity to attack Iran in a much bigger way and justify it as "retaliation". He may have hoped that western countries would talk western countries into "standing by Israel" in war against Iran.

I am not the only one to suspect that.

I hope those countries' governments are wise enough to refuse to fall for Netanyahu's efforts to lure them into war, or lure them into disregarding the urgency of ending the siege of Gaza.

This could be an opportunity to squeeze Netanyahu out of the Israeli government. They could tell Israel, "We will support Israel against Iranian attack, provided it adopts a defensive posture and provided Netanyahu is not its prime minister."

In the US: join rallies for curbing global heating on April 19 and April 22.

(satire) *Residents [of a Gated Community] Establish More Exclusive Gated [Nested] Community Within First.*