“There is no such thing as a news blackout anymore.”
“I hope you are not referring to….”
“I am referring to news blackout during war.”
“Which war?”
“The US and Iran war.”
“There is a ceasefire in place there.”
“Right that remains in place in spite of self-defence….self-defence….attacks?”
“Not the right word my friend, I would say self-defence operations.”
“Well these self-defence operations are reigniting….”
“When armies are arrayed against each other like in the Middle East the Israeli definition of ceasefire, as per the late Palestinian poet and academic Dr Refaat Alareer, is operational: you cease we fire.”
“Israel has violated all ceasefires – more than a 1000 – so far. Even President Trump acknowledged that ceasefire in the Middle East means killing fewer than when there is no ceasefire.”
“Right by the way what happened to the Board of Peace?”
“The Board members are currently negotiating their salary and…”
“Didn’t membership require a large fee? And has poodle Blair paid the fees yet?”
“Not sure but a poodle has to operate within a given salary. Now if he was a dachshund….”
“Don’t be facetious anyway so self-defence as President Trump rightly maintains is legitimate and does not end a ceasefire.”
“We retaliated against the Indians right, in self-defence.”
“Kosher I agree, but there is a difference: Indians bombed Pakistani land with their French made jets, and we checkmated them with our Chinese made jets.”
“Right and the Iranians attacked an expensive US Apache helicopter that was moseying down the Strait of Hormuz and…”
“Ahhhhh….”
“What?”
“One must mosey on down carefully…”
“During ceasefires a la Israeli style?”
“Good point.”
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