On support for the war in Israel and the US – Dahlia Scheindlin in Haaretz: ‘During the first week of the war, polls from the Israel Democracy Institute and the Institute for National Security Studies have found that over 90 percent of Jewish Israelis support it. The very low level of support among Arab Palestinian citizens brings the national average of support down to just over 80 percent.’

And: ‘For Americans (…) Iran was just one more foreign policy issue they could choose to think about or not.’

And: ‘A penetrating analysis in The Economist last week found that even western European countries, especially France, and the liberal Anglo cluster of Canada, Australia and New Zealand are falling into line with the force-driven path charted by Israel and the U.S., possibly leaving their international law and rules-based order framework behind.’

The US under Trump is the avant-garde, Europe slowly falls into step.

(a sf 2076)