Apocalypse Now was a modern rendering of Heart of Darkness. "The Horror. The Horror." That story of colonizers in Africa, in an archetypal story that could to told in many places. Palestine was colonized several times over.

And the US appears to have bombed something in Syria. Unrelated to the Hamas/Israel events, but the timing makes it all the more complicated. "Self-defense strikes" against something Iran is doing. Iran who is behind Hamas.