As we said, last tonight / this morning is the last time until Monday that we're going to be able to do significant blogging. But luckily, you don't need us here to get our commentary. Here's what's going to happen in the next week or so:

Israel is going to invade the Gaza Strip to root out the rockets and missiles that have been falling on Israeli schools. People will die. The world will blame Israel.

Some time in between all of this, Iran will issue a statement calling for Israel's destruction. Not "calling" for it, though. Just "observing" that it's inevitable in the very shortterm. The Bush Administration, led by James Baker and his team of realists, will studiously ignore this "observation". Instead, they will commit themselves to trying to get Iran to cooperate on stabilizing Iraq in preparation for a humiliating American withdrawal, to be broadcast on Al-Jazeera.

UPDATE: That disclaimer at the beginning should read "significant, real-time-ish blogging". We've got three posts set to go up on Friday and another two on Saturday - but they're going to be current only as of this morning. Still, if we can't blog detached and abstract meta-commentary only loosely related to the news story we're ostensibly posting about, then the terrorists have already won.

Previously: Ahmadinejad Just Threatened To Wipe Out Israel, Attack the EU and the US, Israel Not Amused By Attempts To Turn Gaza Into Lebanon, Terrorists Building Tunnels, Storerooms For War