Probably nothing. >Unusual event in Israel just now: major and very short (1.5 seconds) earthquake in the immediate vicinity of Dimona (where Israel develops a very explosive kind of candy). > More unusual: an earthquake drill was scheduled a few days ago for the precise moment of the actual earthquake. > Israel is trying to tell the US something, that's my guess, having learned of Trump's latest U-turn on Iran. A nuclear option may have just been made real, with Israel choosing to risk actual extinction and the fate of the entire region. > Establishing a colonial European Jewish outpost in Palestine will be remembered as one of history's biggest and most fateful international blunders