Israel Faces A Shakespearean Dilemma After Iran's Salvo
The Independent|April 17, 2024
Israel's current Iran policy conundrum can be concisely summed up by paraphrasing Prince Hamlet: "To retaliate or not to retaliate, that is the question.
ALON PINKAS
Israel Faces A Shakespearean Dilemma After Iran's Salvo

Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them.”

Two significant paradigm shifts occurred in the last two weeks in the semi-belligerent Israeli-Iranian relationship. The first was Israel’s 1 April strike against Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps generals in an annexe of the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria, killing four. It was an expression of “strategic proportionality”, meaning that Israel hit Iran directly, rather than its proxies throughout the Middle East, as it has done before. Israel has operated against Iran inside Iranian territory before – but that was part of a decades-long covert war. That war had rules of the game and rules of engagement. That mould was broken in Damascus.

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