The commitments made today all run past the war. Staffs with multi-year terms, hardware that goes live long after anyone expects this to be over — that is what governments sign when they have stopped waiting for an end date.
Flash Brief: The Day in 90 Seconds or Less
The strait: Central Command asks the White House for standing authority to strike Iran on a schedule and keep the Guards blind. See The War Today.
The Gulf: Iran answers an American strike by firing on Jordan, Qatar and the Emirates, and three capitals condemn it. See The War Today.
Gaza City: Israel flies air cover for a ground force in the western neighborhoods as the stabilization force stays absent. See The War Today.
Water: Five of six desalination plants sit down on storm turbidity, and Negev agriculture takes the rationing. See Inside Israel.
Ra'am: Abbas puts a Jewish police commander second on his list, and Eisenkot counts an abstention. See Inside Israel.
Athens and Istanbul: Israel sells Athens a full air-defense array the day the Mecca pact opens a permanent secretariat. See Israel and the World.
The High Holidays: American congregations rehearse an attack inside the sanctuary as California's buffer-zone bill waits on the governor. See Israel and the World.
El-Sayed: Michigan's Democratic Senate nominee defends Hasan Piker a day after apologizing again to his party's Jewish caucus. See Israel and the World.
Tehran picked the two capitals that will not shoot back, which is how a regime behaves while it waits out the people bombing it. Istanbul did its own version — a staff, an admission rule, and nothing said about the clause that makes an attack on one an attack on all. Israel spent the day working. It put an air force over a ground force in Gaza City and ran the National Water Carrier backwards to cover five plants that stopped.
Today: a request for standing orders to strike Iran, Israel rationing water for a second day, and Spain's prime minister naming us on the radio.
The Jewish State — Mitzpe's eight-session live course on Israeli history from the Mandate to October 7, taught the way the brief reads. Cohort 1: eight Sundays from Oct 11. mitzpe.org/the-jewish-state