They Explode Too?!

This morning Prime Minister Netanyahu is doing the thing where he walks away slowly while shit behind him blows up. 

Reader(s) don't need Stroock's Books to recap yesterday's events in Lebanon. Ynet has a good wrap.* Israel literally decimated Hezbollah's membership and crippled their coms network. Think of the chaos Israel has wrought. Nobody in Hezbollah will pick up a phone without breaking a sweat. Lastly, Israel just humiliated Hezbollah.

A friend, who shall we say is no Zionist, chastised that civilians were hurt. 'War is hell,' we replied. War is funny too. The jokes write themselves:

-Glad I'm not a customer service rep at that pager company. 

-Hezbollah doesn't have the balls to attack Israel. 

-The exploding pager attack really hits below the belt. 

Yes we are approaching this moment with great hubris. Enjoy the moment, for there's been many dark days this last year and many dark days lie ahead. Dark days are here. Four Israeli soldiers were killed in Gaza today. Exit question: is this the calm before the storm? Sure feels like it. 

Ohhhh, my god! As we write this, thousands of Hezbollah walkie talkies are blowing up all over Lebanon. 

Hmmm we've been posting a tonne on Substack and getting lots of traction. But we see no correlation of Substack interactions to increased book sales. Hard to say if we're helping ourselves there, as sales spikes seem to be entirely random. Still, with 22 novels in print, picking up just a few readers a week is a big deal in the long run. 

 *My word. If Israel knew Hezbollah was growing suspicious of their pagers, what else do the Israelis know?