What has the Israeli PM\u2019s whirlwind of violence achieved? His closest ally now turning against him \u2013 and an emboldened Iran<\/p>\n
Benjamin Netanyahu, the biggest loser in last week\u2019s preliminary deal to halt the US-Israel-Iran war<\/a>, will be remembered \u2013 and reviled \u2013 as the man who put the Middle East to the sword. Whether the \u201cproblem\u201d was Hamas in Gaza, illegal West Bank land seizures, supposed Israeli-Arab fifth columnists, peace campaigners\u2019 aid flotillas<\/a>, Hezbollah in Lebanon, hostile militias in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, or Tehran\u2019s hardline Islamic regime, the Israeli leader\u2019s \u201csolution\u201d was always the same: extreme, often lawless violence that invariably made matters worse.<\/p>\n The unprovoked, illegal war against Iran<\/a> was the ultimate expression of the Netanyahu doctrine \u2013 the disproportionate application of brute force. Predictably, it too, has failed. Donald Trump is desperately arguing that the ceasefire memorandum he signed in Versailles (of all places!) is not the lame capitulation it so self-evidently is. But while the US president may survive this humiliation \u2013 despite global scepticism and mockery \u2013 the likely consequences of the debacle for Netanyahu, his brother-in-harms, are career-ending serious. In many respects<\/a>, Israel\u2019s longest-serving prime minister is already yesterday\u2019s man.<\/p>\n Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentator<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What has the Israeli PM\u2019s whirlwind of violence achieved? His closest ally now turning against him \u2013 and an emboldened Iran Benjamin Netanyahu, the biggest loser in last week\u2019s preliminary deal to halt the US-Israel-Iran war, will be remembered \u2013 and reviled \u2013 as the man who put the Middle East to the sword. Whether … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}