This evening, given what is currently unfolding in the Middle East, I think I better direct everyone back to read what I wrote here. Events in Israel are an issue I have actively chosen to avoid. It isn’t that I don’t care about what is going on there – what self-respecting political and social commenter would turn their back on such a major world issue? – but what is unfolding there is always so thorny and contentious that I find whatever I write it is bound to wind someone up. Now that Trump has become so involved, opinions will have become even stronger and commenting has become even harder to resist; yet I think it is wiser to take a step back and continue to just watch events unfold.