Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich vowed that “very soon, Dahiya will look like Khan Younis,” publicly acknowledging that the genocide in Gaza is now Israel’s model for violence across the region.

The U.S. and Israel launched a full-scale air war on Iran. Twenty-three years after the invasion of Iraq, they are running the same playbook, but this time against a far more capable adversary, with no strategy and no accountability.