Day 1,727: incendiary, stoke

The war has raised the stakes, and although the hard-right parties of the coalition are excluded from the war cabinet they have compromised Israel’s national interest by using incendiary rhetoric, stoking settler violence and trying to sabotage aid and post-war planning.

At a moment of military might, Israel looks deeply vulnerable

Artwork of the day 
Woman Stoking a Stove
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Date: 1912
Style: Impressionism
Period: Later Years
Genre: genre painting
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Private Collection

Word of the day 
incendiary: designed to cause fires:
stoke: to add fuel to a large fire and move the fuelaround with a stick so that it burns well and produces a lot of heat:

Quote of the day
“Actors are by nature volatile—alchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy. Heat them up, stir them together, and sometimes you get gold. Sometimes disaster.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains