Last weekend’s largescale attack by Iran on Israel may have passed with relatively little damage, but it mark ed a significant transformation in the conflict between the two enemies. A war that has long been fought through proxies, assassinations and strikes away from Israeli soil has spilled into the open.
While senior Israeli officials have framed the attack as “revealing the true face” of Tehran, the reality is that the proximate cause was Israel’s misjudgment in its strike on an Iranian diplomatic compound in Syria that killed two senior Iranian generals, among others.
After years in which both sides operated
