After the failure in Gaza and Iran, the Israeli prime minister hopes he can be triumphant in Lebanon.

Trump and Netanyahu are in this war for very different reasons. And that will soon show.

The Israeli prime minister’s failure to secure any assurances from Trump is yet another signal Israel is losing ground.

Quietly, but steadily, the Israeli geopolitical clout is shrinking while the Israeli state is succumbing to dysfunction.

His supporters defend him, his opponents cannot look past him and the centre keeps trying to bargain with him.

There was neither a regime change, nor a decapitation of the Iranian nuclear programme.

There was nothing preemptive about the Israeli assault on Iranian military and civilian infrastructure and officials.