
Israel’s Missile Site Burns; Now The Story Gets Weird
A mushroom cloud appears over Israel’s missile system, and somehow Iran is still the one we’re meant to panic about. Right, so a huge mushroom cloud has gone up over Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem, and the Israeli explanation is that everyone should calm down because this was a controlled test. Controlled. That is the word they have chosen for a night-time fireball big enough to send residents reaching for their phones, big enough to spread across social media before the official line could get its boots on, and big enough to make even Israeli journalists ask what on earth they were supposed…
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