Yves here. The horrors of Israel’s genocide in Gaza become more intense and wide-ranging as the pace of its extermination accelerates. Israel is also stepping up its ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. It is attacking Southern Lebanon as the Lebanese government is seeking to disarm Hezbollah….a move that is opposed by enough of the populace that Alastair Crooke contends it will produce civil war. And not surprisingly, Netanyahu is taking credit for the Lebanese initiative against Hezbollah. A civil war would lower the cost to Israel of subduing Lebanon.

With so many vicious campaigns in motion in parallel, it’s hard not to become numbed even to graphic accounts of institutionalized savagery. Stalin was correct when he said, “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

So in an effort to again remind readers of the very real human cost, we are featuring two final accounts