For many Israelis, there is an obvious emotive appeal for a decisive, region-changing war. But beyond Israel’s borders, allies fear doing so may prompt a catastrophic, even nuclear, bloodbath.
Israeli army tanks manoeuvre in a staging area in northern Israel near the Lebanese border. AP
Hassan Nasrallah is dead. The Hezbollah he led is in tatters. Israel and Iran stand on the brink of all out, devastating war. For the optimists, it is the supreme opportunity.
The Iranian regime will fall “sooner than people think”, as Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put it in an address to the Iranian public (delivered in English).
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