Trump's Peace Plan, Israel Kills Hamas & Hezbollah Leaders, Wagner Loses Big... and More

Vladimir Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing happens, and there are weeks, or where decades happen." There are a lot of places around the world where the latter sediment probably feels true, shout out to the Americans, the Bangladeshis, the Prisons and the Vedas Waylands.

But nowhere has their feeling hit home in the same ways it has in the Middle East, and in particular, in and around the Israel-Hamas War, where two key events across a span of just a few hours' time changed the Middle East in a way that usually takes years.

The first of the two was an air strike, one that came crashing down in a densely populated suburb of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, around sunset on Tuesday the 30th of July.