As Israelis prepared to mark Passover Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this week delivered a defiant wartime address replete with biblical references of ancient Jewish triumphs over their enemies.
He likened Israel’s strikes on its enemies as the Ten Plagues that God is believed to have inflicted on Egypt to free the Israelites from slavery.
Israel has “changed the Middle East,” he boasted
Just hours later, Iran unleashed one its heaviest barrages of the conflict, shattering the holiday mood and laying bare the gap between Netanyahu’s victorious rhetoric and the reality on the ground over a month into the US-Israeli war in Iran.
Opposition…