When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned from Washington earlier this month, his political rival, former Defence Minister Benny Gantz, launched a campaign supporting a strike on Iran.
This came at a time of growing social unrest in Israel over the prolonged war in Gaza and the increasing burden on exhausted reserve forces.
While the parliamentary opposition follows Netanyahu’s lead, refusing to acknowledge the illusion of “total victory”, a strike on Iran would risk igniting chaos across the region. Simultaneously, Israeli military operations in Syria are deepening the strategic confusion, pushing the country into another quagmire.
These aggressive moves highlight the limits of Israeli military power, while a deeper conflict simmers under the surface: the identity crisis between “the state of Tel Aviv” and “the state of so-called Judea and Samaria”, the Israeli name for the occupied West Bank. ….more
