Netanyahu, your Iran dream is over

It has to be said clearly. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's life's mission - attacking Iran to save Israel - has become impossible.

It's over. The drama in Iran and in Egypt in the past few weeks set the picture. No element, no matter how radical, can avoid understanding that these millions of people want to live. Just as we had to listen to former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, we must now listen to his successor, Hassan Rohani. His calls for equality, freedom of expression and an absence of religious coercion are not a smokescreen or a plot. They are the consequence of the majority's desire for life. Those who are attached to the world of "masculine" language can speak of an Israeli victory. The principal Israeli position (whose most recent proponent at the top was former Defense Minister Ehud Barak ) - that Israel must postpone wars as long as possible in the hope that time would have a moderating effect, and force should only be used when all other options were exhausted and there was a clear chance of success - proved itself. It's not a personal matter.

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