We got back to the gym yesterday for a weightlifting session. Previously we were really maxing out with 40-pound dumbbells and hundred-pound bar sets. We decided that was too much and yesterday reduced the weights by 40 percent. We'll shall experiment with this for a few sessions and see what happens.
They say once again that Israel/Hamas negotiations have made great progress. Hamas denies this. We've no idea. We do know that the Israelis slammed 40 Hamas targets overnight. They also eliminated some Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon and destroyed a major
Our own sense is that Iran is trying to get a ceasefire while Hamas is trying to drag Iran into the war. At the moment Netanyahu is winning the war and the negotiations. The man is very good at what he does. We await events and we await catastrophe. All winning streaks end.
Another Israeli poll shows a dream party led by Naftali Bennett and including Benny Gantz and Avigdor Liberman would win the most Knesset mandates with 19 and give the anti-Bibi bloc 67 seats in the 120 seat Knesset. This dream party is just that. Otherwise, after nearly a year of war, Israeli politics are still stuck and will remain so until Bibi finds something else to do.* Exit question, does Bibi's Likud return to a solid 25-35 seat total if he wins the war and gets the hostages back?
The Things.
Sales really picked up this week. God bless the backlist. The number one selling book is World War 1990: Norway. But number two is World War 1990: Arctic Storm. Excellent. When people pick up the first book in the series, they'll be tempted to pick up the second book, and so on. See how that works?
We made excellent progress on War Night this week. We have rough drafts of the Haig and Taoiseach stories. The Haig story is a repetitive mess. This is normal. The Taoiseach story is on much firmer ground and needs only to be tweaked. Both stories need to go into the sit phase. War Night is 43,000 words.
We have a good idea or two for tomorrow. Back to Thatcher's War while we ruminate on the next War Night story.
*To quote the Jpost: 'If Bennett does not form a new party, the results would be starkly different. The opposition would hold 59 seats, the coalition 51, and Hadash-Ta'al and Ra'am would split the remaining 10 seats.' Those last two are the Arab parties. We can't image anyone forming a government with them. The previous Bennett/Lapid coalition did so, but that was pre-10/7.
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