Violence and diplomacy are moving at the same time across the Middle East, and the mood is bad for anyone hoping the Gaza peace push is working.

• Israel hit Lebanon on Sunday in its deadliest strikes there since early June, reportedly killing a Hezbollah commander and about a dozen others.
• Jared Kushner met Hamas leaders in Egypt to talk about Gaza's future, after the peace plan stalled and the killing continued.
• Marjorie Taylor Greene says nuclear weapons against Iran have come up in strategy meetings.
• That kind of talk looks like a deliberate leak, meant to make the world believe Trump might actually do it.
• Even a nuclear strike on Tehran probably would not make the Iranian regime back down.

Outlook: Expect more strikes and more pressure talk, with no real breakthrough on Gaza in the near term.