The war against Iran has shown us, as a public, that in today’s Israel, lying is a method of governance

As in most of Netanyahu’s not exactly cheerful days, we again ended up the winners in words – and the losers in the campaign. The ayatollah regime is still there, as are the nuclear program and the ballistic missiles. Please, Mr. Prime Minister, just once stand before the public and tell the truth.

This is probably the most predictable thing in Israel under the rule of Netanyahu and his partners. Once again, we were sold “total victory.” Once again, we were told about decisive victory, about destruction, about historic transformation, about a new Middle East. But after some forty days of war with Iran, what remains is not total victory, and for now not even victory, but a fragile ceasefire born not of the enemy’s collapse but of exhaustion, attrition, fear of further escalation, and the understanding that even superpowers have limits.

The regime in Tehran has not collapsed, not fallen apart, not disappeared from the world. It is still there, speaking, threatening, bargaining, and negotiating the terms of an end. And that is the difference between a campaign and a reality that refuses to conform to it: in the campaign, we strike in waves, destroy, and win big – enormous, in fact. In reality – weeds, thorns, and lies.

The same is true of the nuclear issue. All the grand slogans turned out, what a surprise, to be slogans. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, on the eve of the war Iran had 440 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60 percent –........

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