Overcast today with occasional sunny breaks, and spells of light drizzle. It was warm enough for Clare to sit out in the garden for a while after breakfast, but the weather deteriorated into persistent rain later on.
In the news today, reports of an Israeli strike on a hotel in Qatar, targeting the senior leadership of Hamas, said to stay there. It's not certain how successful the raid was, and it has provoked outrage in Middle Eastern nations and further afield.
Even Trump states he's 'very unhappy' about this 'unfortunate' unilateral incident, which serves the interests of neither Israel nor the USA in his opinion. He wasn't consulted about Netanyahu's decision. Qatar hosts a large American air base, and the Qatari Emirate has been hosting diplomatic initiatives to bring about a ceasefire and return of Israeli hostages. What will happen now?
Netanyahu seems to act without regard for the consequences, his spokespersons declaring the world will be grateful when Israel has totally eliminated Hamas. Will any negotiations be possible after this? Meanwhile the invasion of Gaza city and levelling it to the ground with thousands of residents unable to flee to safe places of refuge continues.
Hamas the organisation may soon be eliminated, but the ideology and stories of those who fought for it at the cost of their lives will survive to inspire others, one way or another. Despite the defeat of nazism, and post war de-nazification efforts its ideology re-emerged half a century later, like an un-treatable cancer.
I cooked herrings for lunch with the usual veg, and after a mini-siesta worked on making a video slide show of Morning Prayer for the week after next, and uploading it to YouTube. Then a walk around Llandaff Fields and along the Taff down to Sophia Gardens and to the shops in Canton to get some soft fruit before returning home.
After supper I watched the second long episode of 'Karen Pirie' on ITVX. It's a slow moving police procedural, switching constantly between an investigation 25 years ago and a current case. It moves along in a low key way at slow pace. It features the work of a True Crime podcaster which stimulates a police cold case review resulting in murder related to past tragedy. Its twists and turns arise from the emergence of details previously overlooked or ignored, some of them coming from social media posts by fans of the podcast. It's received very favourable reviews. I'm not surprised.
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