Pessimism on the Last Day of Summer

• Biden and Trump are in total agreement on Gaza (and until I hear something to the contrary from Harris, I will assume she is also in agreement). The only difference is that Biden pretends to care about Palestinians. Who's being more honest here?
• Why are these pager explosion murders by Israel not treated like the terrorist attack that it is? Instead, it's treated like some clever trick and entirely acceptable.
• I just read the transcript of an interesting discussion in the online edition of n+1. One of the participants raised the question of why didn't they carve out a section of Germany or Italy or France to form the country of Israel? After all, that's where the actual Nazi perpetrators of the Holocaust lived and operated.
• It's pretty clear that Netanyahu's goal is to embroil itself and the US in a war over the entire Mideast.