War on Iran Backfires: Losses all around for Israel and Trump

By Jeremy Salt

At all these levels, any claim that Israel ‘won’ the war on Iran is incongruous. At all levels, the defeat – this setback – is the worst in Israel’s history.

No question about it. Netanyahu’s attack on Iran, followed by the US attack on Iran’s nuclear reactors, ended in a victory for Iran. Israel took damage it had never experienced before, never remotely experienced before.

The attack on Iran had clearly been…