That tragic day might have sealed the political fate of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on whose watch it all happened. But thanks to the subsequent victories Israel’s soldiers won in the field against its adversaries, the prime minister not only remains in office but probably also has an even chance of winning another term whenever the nation’s voters go to the polls sometime in the next year.
Those victories came at a high price, which involved the deaths (at the time of this writing) of 893 members of the Israel Defense Forces. Those successes against enemies of the Jewish state were also made possible only by Netanyahu’s steadfast leadership and refusal to be bludgeoned into surrendering his country’s security by its sole superpower ally. In doing so, he was able to lead the subsequent successful effort to defeat Hezbollah and Iran, and help usher in the fall of the decades-long regime of Bashar Assad in Syria, an Iranian ally. That has led to what even his opponents must concede is a stunning revival of his...
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