Day 1,727: clumsy, Lawfare, allegations

Israel’s final failure is clumsy diplomacy. Fury at the war was inevitable, especially in the global south, but Israel has done a poor job of countering it. “Lawfare”, including spurious genocide allegations, is damaging its reputation.

At a moment of military might, Israel looks deeply vulnerable

Artwork of the day 
Allegory, boy lighting candle in the company of an ape and a fool - Fábula
El Greco
Date: c.1590; Spain
Style: Mannerism (Late Renaissance)
Period: Spanish period
Genre: allegorical painting
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Dimensions: 67 x 89 cm

Word of the day 
clumsy: awkward in movement or manner:
Lawfare: the use of legal action to cause problems for an opponent:
allegation: a statement, made without giving proof, that someone has done something wrong or illegal

Quote of the day
“Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.”

― Oscar Wilde