Will the Scorpion Sting the U.S. Frog?
Will the Scorpion Sting the U.S. Frog? ALASTAIR CROOKE Netanyahu is setting the stage for entrapment of the Biden Administration by manoeuvring so that the U.S. has little choice but to join with Israel. The allegory is one in which a scorpion depends on the frog for its passage across a flooded river, by hitching a lift on the frog’s back. The frog distrusts the scorpion; but reluctantly agrees. During the crossing the scorpion fatally stings the frog swimming the river, under the scorpion. They both die. It is a tale from antiquity intended to illustrate the nature of tragedy. A Greek tragedy is one in which the crisis at the heart of any ‘tragedy’ does not arise by sheer mischance. The Greek sense is that tragedy is where something happens because it has to happen ; because of the nature of the participants; because the actors involved make it happen. And they have no choice but to make it happen, because that is their nature. It is a story that was deployed by a former senior Is