On flirting – Alon Pinkas in Haaretz:

‘But the assassination of Haniyeh in Tehran after the inauguration of the new Iranian president, widely attributed to Israel, is an entirely different story. This is not about justice, retribution or settling accounts. This is about flirting with major escalation.’

Read the article here.

Netanyahu, usually risk-averse, might be looking for a conflict in the region that will include the US.

The question is, see Friedman in NYT, read it here, what does Iran want?

To get rid of Israel?

To use Israel as a welcome distraction?

Or to throw the US out of the region?

If that’s the case a wider regional, probably also a war with the US, is inevitable. In that case, Israel is just a pawn. Or maybe a rook.