Netanyahu’s ‘Imaginary War Narrative’ Strategy: ‘If It Works, Fine; if Not, No Big Deal. We’ll Try Something Else’

Of course, a victory narrative was too valuable to be foregone. Yet nonetheless, unexplained events matter.

On Saturday, an Israeli force of some 100 aircraft attacked Iran from a stand-off position in Iraq, some 70 kilometres outside the Iranian border.

A Wall Street Journal author, Walter Russell Meade, Distinguished Fellow at the Hudson Institute, wrote: “Israeli warplanes didn’t only cripple Iran’s air-defence systems and inflict painful blows on its missile-producing facilities. They also s...