The US has pulled embassy staff from Israel and Lebanon, so is that an admission that Israel’s escalations are no longer containable? Right, so the US has pulled embassy staff out of Israel and Lebanon. Not a statement, not a warning, not a briefing — people physically moved. So why have they done that then unless something fundamental has already changed? Because governments don’t do that unless they think things have spun beyond their control. Israel is still striking Lebanon. Hezbollah still hasn’t responded yet. Iran has already said talk now counts as action as Israel continue the smack talk. And Washington, the same Washington that keeps pretending this is all manageable, has suddenly decided its own people shouldn’t now be standing too close to it. So what’s changed that we aren’t being told about, because Israel’s attitude towards Iran an ...