News Snapshot:
As the bloodletting continues by both sides in Israel and Palestine, the mystery of why and how it happened is only deepening. Already several theories are afoot, including that the whole is a ‘false flag’ operation, that it was fathered by Russia or China or both, and oddly, with far fewer people blaming the whole on Iran. That’s surprising. The story is yet to unfold, and its endpoint may be quite different from what one expects. As a bare-bones facts-only scenario, the whole becomes even more baffling. Reportage shows not just a barrage of several thousand rockets — a form...