Israel’s killing of journalists in Lebanon shows a lack of guardrails on its actions

Israel has been targetting journalists for many, many years – Peter

It has often been described as a stalemate this week — this war that is now primarily centred on the Strait of Hormuz.

Not even the financial markets seemed to react much to the latest presidential decrees this week, which seem to bear little connection to unfolding events.

This was even though, slowly but surely, the military confrontations in the strait have been escalating, with both sides striking, or seizing, each other’s assets.

And the “stalemate” description came even though Donald Trump had declared a ceasefire was underway in Lebanon, yet the two sides continued to launch assaults on each other.