These potential wars would only delay, but not resolve, conflicts that portend nuclear confrontation down the time stream. It’s hard not to have an interest in the present troubling rightward swing in Israeli politics, embodied in 40-year-old Naftali Bennett, leader of the ultra-nationalist, right-wing Israeli political party The Jewish Home, whose campaign slogan concludes “…there will never be a peace plan with the Palestinians.” Such a harsh shift shows a hardening of differences between Israel and the Palestinians over Jewish settlements, a “local” conflict with regional and global relevance.