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Benjamin Netanyahu’s habit of taking credit for events he was previously wrong about, or had no impact on, is a transparent exercise in manipulative distortion of the truth. Now, after tacitly supporting Assad through the Syrian civil war, he wants credit for the fall of his regime
The prevailing conventional wisdom is that over the past year, the Middle East has undergone seismic changes and “tectonic shifts” – as everyone seems to be saying – and its landscape is dramatically changing in Israel’s favor. The notion of an omnipotent Iran masterminding a web of proxies has been exposed as very fragile, while the idea that Israel was deterred has been upended. Consequently, the entire balance of power and geopolitical equations should be revisited.