It is the greatest failure of his life, much more egregious than October 7. Benjamin Netanyahu’s previous failure had many fathers; he and he alone bears the responsibility for this one. If Netanyahu’s life’s project was – and it was – the struggle against Iran, the obsession of a single man, this war is his life’s fiasco. Israel emerges from this war more scarred than it appears to be, weaker and more ostracized than it went into it. Iran emerges battered but strengthened and rewarded sevenfold.
