Good Thursday and pre-shabbat greetings, Stroock's Books associated fans, observers and hangers on.
Our sojourn across the Hudson went just fine. We eschewed a visit to the cemetery. It's not like anyone is going anywhere, at least not before the zombie apocalypse.
Let's check Dow futures after yesterday's drop....yikes.
Trump nixed an Israeli proposal to attack Iran, they say, 'Even hawkish members of Trump’s cabinet expressed skepticism that a military strike could destroy Iran’s nuclear ambitions, resulting in a “rough consensus” that for the time being negotiation was the better option, the Times reported.' According to the report the plan included an Israeli commando raid. Cool and terribly risky.
This does not worry us, no...Exit questions....Why not give negotiations one last shot? Besides, Trump just delivered 3,000 munitions to Israel with another 10,000 on the way so let's not fire up the Trump is gonna screw Israel machine. Also, what if the Trump admin feels Iran is on the brink of an economic/political collapse? Final question: why did the administration plant this story in the press?*
Oh, again for the record. This is Israel's war, not America's. Ahhh....but Israel Radar reports that US air strikes on the Houthi may be prep for an upcoming Yemeni/Saudi offensive.
Up in Canada, they held the federal leaders French language debate last night. Don't ask us what happened. English language debate tonight. There's some evidence that Pierre and the cons are gaining (slightly) on Carney and the libs. One poll has Carney falling. The poll's an outlier but it's also the latest. A trend? We've asked our fellow North American for comment.
Doge report: we began two scenes in Thatcher's War. We'll work on them today.
Oh look, the War Night ebook file has arrived. Ebook and hard copy files have been uploaded and are under review.
*Or is this story why a couple of Pentagon officials have been thrown out of the building Jewish Insider asks?