Word is trickling out that the scope of Israel’s undeclared air war against Iran and its proxies is wider than we were first led to believe. Given my past criticism of the Israeli government, you might think I’m critical of that, but I’m not; my principal issue with Netanyahu is his desire to bamboozle America into doing his dirty work for him, and the increased level of conflict suggests that Israel does, in fact, have some skin in the game.
No, the real concern should be that we only hear about the war during election campaigns. Could it possibly be that Netanyahu is leaking this information because he wants to remind everyone how dangerous the neighborhood is, and how indispensable he is? He wouldn’t be cynical enough to do that, would he?
Of course he would.