Bob Carr

The Israeli Way of War. @MSF reports Israeli targeting of medical workers in Lebanon, as in Gaza. The war crimes are now blatant. Trump however must revile Israel for producing this humiliating adventure and yanking the US into it. Israel’s war has been a disaster for the west

If Trump is frustrated he will take it out on Ukraine and NATO partners, always thinking vengeance and payback.

Not a US national security concern requires this war with its monstrous crimes against millions of civilians in Lebanon as well as Iran - all being delivered for Israel, as Marco Rubio openly admitted in the first days.

Israeli and US bombing have destroyed 500 schools and 300 medical centres. There is a term to use here and it’s war crime.

Every prev US pres accepted limits on support for Israel. Not this incipient fascist. As we see rising unemployment and inflation, swelling refugee flows, rampart populism undermining our politics, put the blame where it lies: the Netanyahu-Trump alliance, an actual axis of evil

Across region 5mil displaced, their homes destroyed. Monstrous destruction of water, energy, housing, schools. Childhood victims rendered limbless for life. Prosperity of Gulf states smashed to smithereens. Ec recovery in Lebanon & Syria destroyed. Welcome to the new Middle East.

And allow its settlers to seize the moment to beat up Palestinians in occupied territories which they are doing with characteristic brutality with one goal: under cover of war - this, or the next - expel them from Gaza and the West Bank.

Sun headline from NYT: “US Marines arrive in M East as Houthis Enter War.” Have we slipped into a nightmare universe? As revealed last week Mossad advised Netanyahu that war would quickly see the mullahs displaced. He persuaded Trump. War came. & the mullahs tightened their grip

David Harewood as the Moor and Caitlin Fitzgerald as a dynamic Desdemona not a stained glass cliche.

Another revelation at the Randwick Ritz: the latest Othello and not even the over-exposed Toby Jones could mar it. Indeed he was a masterful Iago, Shakespeare’s prince of villains. How the dialogue flows, the pacing and characterisation so contemporary. youtu.be/MMFenDIr96Q

The joke’s on me department: dinner at Chargrill Charlie’s Coogee Bay Road. My 2 last attempts at cooking saw me throw the meals away. Last before those - food poisoning.

A movie set in Hong Kong in 1962, revived last night at Randwick Ritz and what a gem. youtu.be/FzMHCalcfdM

Pete Hegseth says US will beat Iran because America holds the Christian faith. Why didn’t the formula deliver a triumph in Afghanistan, instead of Taliban triumph? What an administration.

A general disaster for Western interests as well as humanitarian catastrophe.

In March the Israel-US war delivered Putin a $5b windfall through oil price rises. And now a NATO crisis between Trump and Europeans who say “not our war.” Vengeful Trump likely to lash out and leave Ukraine defence entirely to Europeans.

Norwegian Refugee Council says 3 million Iranians now displaced. From the Gaza playbook - a criminal demolition of the homes of a civilian population.