Current sectionOpinionShare to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribeAfter repeated promises, more Israelis are beginning to realize that Netanyahu has no strategy for war – because war itself is the strategy05:30 PM • June 09 2026 IDT"Every war is ironic," wrote historian Paul Fussell, "because every war is worse than expected." Fussell, who fought and was wounded in World War II, meant a tragic irony, based on the gap between the expectations of the victim of irony and reality. Between war as it is imagined before it begins – swift, clean, leading to a historic victory – and war as it later unfolds: long, bloody, and above all, very stupid.In the NewsU.K., Allies Sanction Israeli Settler Groups in West Bank; France Bars Smotrich39-year-old Israeli Charged With Spying for Iran During WarAttorney General Urges Court Trial for Likud MK Over Naming of Shin Ben AgentSevering Israel's War Fronts Was Never Going to WorkLife Swims On: Best Photos of Israeli Sea Life for World Oceans DayRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMI'We Were Ordered to Kill': The 1967 Nakba That Israelis Don't Know AboutOne Killed, Five Wounded in Terror Shooting Rampage in Central IsraelGermany Is Paying a Price for Its Sweeping Support for IsraelThe Paradigm That Led to Oct. 7 Didn't Collapse, It Was Fiction From the StartIf the Netanyahu Government Falls, This Will Be the Reason'Server in the Sky': How Israeli Drones Became a 'Target Generator' Over Gaza