Right, so Donald Trump’s great Iran MoU has reached the stage every American peace deal in West Asia seems to reach sooner or later: somebody starts bombing the peace partner.

Beautiful stuff. Tremendous diplomacy. The sort of peace framework where the ink is still drying, the Gulf is already lighting up, Israel is measuring curtains in southern Lebanon, and Nabih Berri, the Lebanese Parliamentary Speaker has to send in a camel because apparently nobody can explain sedition without help from livestock.

And no, this is not just "regional tensions rising". I hate that phrase. It is wallpaper for arson. It makes war sound like rising damp.

Tensions did not wander in off the street and knock over a table by accident. Somebody did this. Washington did this. Israel is doing this. Trump's sham of a deal did this.

Because the tric ...