A pantomime crisis, not a real war

The obvious way for Israel’s prime minister to escape from the dilemma in the Gaza Strip was to make the war bigger by dragging in Iran.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, does want a bigger war than either Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei, centre, or American President Joe Biden are willing to give him. Photographs courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

April 15, 2024

LONDON, U.K.—Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s “Supreme Leader,” is embarrassed and humiliated by the complete failure of his drone and missile attack on Israel, but does United States President Joe Biden have the empathy to feel sorry for his old adversary in his time of t...

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