Amos Harel in Haaretz: ‘Too many people in the Israeli media have learned nothing and forgotten nothing. On Sunday morning, all it took was the publication of a single image – Israeli and Golani Brigade flags flying over Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon – to completely sideline the necessary conversation about the state of the current war in Lebanon.’

And: ‘He [Netanyahu] was photographed with soldiers, boasted about the IDF's crossing of Lebanon's Litani River and announced that "we're also operating in Beirut, in the Bekaa, all across the front and smiting Hezbollah hip and thigh."

In reality, U.S. President Donald Trump has greatly restricted Israeli airstrikes on Beirut, for his own reasons.’

Also: ‘He [Bibi] then immediately moved on to the body count, with a level of exaggeration reminiscent of the Americans during the Vietnam War.’

Vietnam and Bibi. Trump and Iran. Tactical mistakes and catastrophes. Waiting for the World Cup.

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