Today, understandably, the magician appears to be pointing to the Russian assault on Ukraine. But that other hand – the Iranian hand – has something very different in mind. And too few notice.
So fast forward:
The date is August 27, 2024. Israel is under attack. In flames.
In Haifa, several explosions have crippled the city. Similar explosions being reported in several other cities and towns in Israel, it appears that the day everyone had feared might come – has come.
A year before, on August 27, 2023, as per the coalition agreement, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett cedes the premiership to Foreign Minister Yair Lapid of the Yesh Atid party.
It is phase two of a rotation agreement which catapulted Bennett to power with the formation of a left-leaning coalition government in June 2021. Recall that virtually all political commentators, analysts and pundits were skeptics when the coalition government was formed – between Israel’s liberal and leftist parties and made possible by the inclusion of three political parties that had promoted themselves as right-wing or right-leaning in the March 23, 2021 Israeli elections. READ MORE
