some various things

 Gaza

Two   members of the IDF were allegedly killed by Hams so the IDF bombed parts of Gaza city killing about 40 people. In a nutshell this shows the immorality of the situation. Hamas commits a crime so palestinians are collectively punished. This is a war crime. Palestinians have no love for Hamas. Israel has killed over 70k of them since the massacre on October 7. Gaza as a whole is rubble. Yes they hate in general Israel because of all of  this but they want peace a nd somewhere to live and the services that go with it.

Why does Israel do this. Three reasons. 

1. Revenge
2. Hate
3. They have no idea of how to kill Hamas personnel without killing innocent Palestinians.

This in turn leads to palestinians hating Israelis. This is not a vicious circle but an evil circle

Ukraine

Trump now wants Zelensky to accept russia holding the donbas region. This won't be accepted by russia but it rewards the aggressor. See the excellent Mick Ryan for a good article on that region.

Albo meets Trump

Well at least he wasn't ambushed like Zelensky or the SA leader however since the USA needs our critical minerals and rare earths perhaps he should have insuited on some tariffs being lowered. Trump does not like rudd. big deal. Rudd's job is to deal mainly with congress and whitehouse aides not Trump.

Sussan Ley

She wants fiscal consolidation which is good but di not specify what spending would be cut. Not good. Sha also said she would be offering tax cuts next election. huh. you can have tax cuts or you can have fiscal consolidation but you cannot have both,

Perhaps I should have added if you are going to offer tax cuts which will be expensive you should already know most places you are going to cut. 

US politics

I find this weird. Polls show that the punters blame the republicans for the congress shutdown and have also shown they are worried about health care premiums. People are now getting invoices to pay for next year and they are wildly expensive. This can only help the democrats but trump and his cultists seem to ignore this  perhaps at their peril.