What can this puerile Headline Mean ? Political Observer on “glorious failure” ?
Jun 16, 2026
This first paragraphs of the Economist Essay plays by the rules, that are discarded at moments when political actors, are not actual political actors, but don usable disguises that ape actual political actors, that are nemeless but are projected by self-serving dishonest atribution.
ON FEBRUARY 28TH hundreds of American and Israeli warplanes took off simultaneously to launch the opening salvo of their war on Iran. For 40 days the two allies’ military partnership was intense and close. But as Donald Trump and Iran’s leaders this week reached an agreement that would extend the ceasefire and bring their war to an end, the nature of that partnership has shifted. Israel has been shut out of the negotiations with Iran. Judging by the details of the accord (Israel hasn’t received a copy) that have emerged so far, it deals with few if any of Israel’s concerns
Editor: Here is where things begin to fall apart. Reader think of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Red Shoes, when in the final act a peace of scenery, or erent Play Bill come to vivid life before the audiences eyes, as if by an act of self-ill? The Economist writer/writers lack of the vision of Powell & Pressburger Élan and Vivacity. But reader I offer a selection of the attempts to capture an essence, that whithers before the gaze!
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The outcome for Israel is, as one of the country’s diplomats in Jerusalem describes it, “a glorious failure”.
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Iran retains the capability to fire ballistic missiles at Israel, the rest of the Middle East and beyond. The agreement with America is not expected to refer to Iran’s ballistic-missile programme at all.
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Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, insisted that troops would remain in the “security zones” that Israel captured in southern Lebanon over the past three months, but Iran is demanding that an Israeli retreat should also be part of the deal with America.
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An Israeli official who was previously stationed in Washington said that “a large part of the problem is that we no longer have the same kind of relationship with America in which officials spoke openly to each other at all levels.
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A few voices in Israel’s defence and intelligence establishment warned their generals of this discrepancy in the first days of the war. They suggested that Israel must be more realistic about its aims. But their bosses were swept away by the success of early air strikes and supported Mr Netanyahu through 40 days of war.
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Israel has failed to achieve its strategic goals. It has damaged its crucial ties with America, as well as its relations with Arab countries that regarded it as an ally against Iran.
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That said, none of his challengers yet has an alternative strategy on Iran. Leaders of all the main opposition parties were just as gung-ho when the war began. For now their criticism of Mr Netanyahu is that he failed to deliver results, not that he launched the war. “We desperately need a new Iran policy,” one military planner observes. For now Israel has no prospect of getting one.
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