The headlines across the Israeli press this week have been nothing short of rapturous. We are told, in varying shades of hyperbole, that the Long Arm of Israel has reached into the heart of Tehran and dismantled the proxy infrastructure that once hemmed us in. On paper, the achievements are staggering: an Air Force operating with impunity across thousands of miles, intelligence penetrations that seem pulled from a cinematic thriller, and the systematic decapitation of leadership within the Iranian axis.

But as the dust settles and the victory laps continue in the Prime Minister’s Office, a sobering question must be asked: To what end?

The military, as it has done for decades, fulfilled its mandate with a level of professionalism and technical wizardry that remains the envy of the world. Our pilots and intelligence officers did not just “mow the grass”; they uprooted an entire landscape of threats. Yet, as the smoke clears, the chilling words of King Pyrrhus echo through the halls of the Kirya: “One more such victory, and we are lost.”

The Vacuum of “The Day After”

In the lexicon of the current cabinet, “The Day After” is a forbidden phrase—a nuisance to be deferred in favor of “total victory.” However, in the real world of geopolitics, a military operation that does not serve a clear political objective is not a strategy; it is a stay of execution.

The Netanyahu government’s refusal to articulate a viable plan for the governance of Gaza or a post-war framework for........

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