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Did Israel miscalculate in launching the war on Iran?

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · · 1330 words · By Daniel Levy
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Al Jazeera reports: Did Israel miscalculate in launching the war on Iran?.

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What happened

Al Jazeera reports: Did Israel miscalculate in launching the war on Iran?.

Why it matters

Like in other conflicts, Israel launched the war on Iran together with the US without a realistic political plan.

Common ground

In recent days, alongside continued claims of successes in this war, a new tone is emerging in Israel’s media, piercing the Israeli sense of invincibility — the first hints of a narrative of defeat.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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Claim 1: “One million Lebanese have been displaced, bridges linking the south of Lebanon to the rest of the country have been bombed out of use, and extensive damage has been wrought.”
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Claim 2: “Senior Israeli officials hailed the 'unprecedented' and 'historic' coordination with the US, including two meetings and 15 phone calls between Netanyahu and Trump in the preceding two months.”
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Claim 3: “The economy has had to significantly hunker down; schools and most businesses have been closed, despite efforts on a number of occasions to reopen.”
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Claim 4: “A new tone is emerging in Israel’s media, piercing the Israeli sense of invincibility — the first hints of a narrative of defeat.”
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Claim 5: “A number of former military strategists close to centres of power have been advocating that Israel move from short wars premised on technological superiority to preparing for protracted conflicts that entail the permanent seizure of territory and destruction of the enemies' 'infrastructure and people'.”
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Claim 6: “Israeli army chief Eyal Zamir warned the security cabinet that the military could 'collapse in on itself', particularly due to manpower shortages.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 2 March 2026, there has been an ongoing war in Lebanon, between the state of Israel and the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah. The war has killed more than 1,000 people in Lebanon and displ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Lebanon_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Chief of the General Staff (Hebrew: רֹאשׁ הַמַּטֶּה הַכְּלָלִי, romanized: Rosh hamateh haklali, abbreviated Ramatkal — רמטכ"ל‎) is the professional head of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The cu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_of_the_General_Staff_(Is…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Eyal Zamir (Hebrew: אייל זמיר; born 26 January 1966) is an Israeli military officer who is the current Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, having taken office on 5 March 2025. Zam…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyal_Zamir
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Claim 7: “Israel’s overreliance on its military and rejection of political plans have a rich history, but what we have witnessed in the post-2023 perpetual wars era is something qualitatively different.”
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Claim 8: “Iran has responded with daily strikes against Israeli targets.”
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Claim 9: “Yossi Yehoshua detailed tensions between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mossad chief David Barnea regarding the failure of plans to collapse the Iranian regime.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (born 21 October 1949) is an Israeli politician and diplomat who has served as Prime Minister of Israel since 2022. Having previously held office from 1996 to 1999 and from 2…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — David "Dadi" Barnea (Hebrew: דוד (דדי) ברנע; born 29 March 1965) is an Israeli intelligence chief who serves as the current director of the Mossad, having taken over from Yossi Cohen in June 2021.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — During the 2026 Iran war, the United States and Israel have sought strategies aimed at regime change in the Islamic Republic of Iran, seeking to destabilize or overthrow the government through militar…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regime_change_efforts_in_the_2…
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Claim 10: “Israel launched the war on Iran together with the US without a realistic political plan.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On June 22, 2025, the United States Air Force and Navy attacked three nuclear facilities in Iran as part of the Twelve-Day War, under the code name Operation Midnight Hammer. The Fordow Uranium Enrich…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel launched a war with surprise airstrikes on sites and cities across Iran, killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and several other Iranian officials as we…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Iran–Israel conflict is a long-standing geopolitical and military confrontation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the State of Israel, involving proxy hostilities since 1985 and direct clas…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Israel_conflict
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Claim 11: “The Israeli and US armies unleashed a campaign of heavy bombardment, assassinating leading political, religious and military figures, and damaging and destroying security infrastructure, military industrial sites and missile launchers, as well as civilian and governance buildings, including oil depots and gasfields.”
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Claim 12: “Certain strategic targets have been impacted in Israel, including the area of the nuclear reactor in Dimona, the Haifa oil refinery, and Ben Gurion airport.”
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Claim 13: “Netanyahu’s talk of 'total victory' can partly be understood in the context of how Israel has experienced total impunity — being able to get away with anything has instilled a sense that the most extreme solutions can be pursued.”
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