The ceasefire with Iran reveals the limits of Israel’s power — and its dependence on the U.S. – Mondoweiss

Much of the current crop of commentary on Israel’s war of aggression on Iran has adopted the familiar tone of breathless admiration: praise for its targeting precision, the elegance of its intelligence-gathering, the almost clinical efficiency with which it eliminates not only combatants but scientists, technicians, and — under the now-naturalized euphemism — “sites and infrastructure.” 

Israel’s opening salvo in the war was, by most conventional metrics, effective….