The postwar West learned to recognize anti-Jewish bigotry through Nazism’s form rather than its function.

According to an Israeli security official, Iran’s new supreme leader is no longer in the country, while Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Ahmad Vahidi and other senior officials are drafting statements in his name. The official also claimed the US does not want Israel to participate in offensive operations, even if the Iranian regime attacks it.

Joseph Aoun arrives in Washington for crucial meetings with President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Lebanon hopes the US will pressure Israel to withdraw, but diplomatic sources warn: “Israel will not withdraw without full security guarantees on the ground.”

Political positions no longer matter, nor does the question of whether signing the accords was right or wrong. What matters is asking a simple question: Did the State of Israel examine what actually happened to the agreements on which it based part of its security doctrine for years? Which commitments were fulfilled, which were violated, who sounded the alarm in real time, and what consequences did those violations have for the security of Israeli civilians?

The former prime minister told Israeli Army Radio that the operational plan he devised while in office included measures aimed at toppling the Iranian regime. “We could have smuggled Starlink terminals into the country ahead of time and ensured that when they shut the internet down, we would switch it back on. But they didn’t do it, just like everything else.”