NETANYAHU: ‘PRECISE, POWERFUL, ACHIEVING ALL OBJECTIVES:’ When it finally came in the early hours of Saturday morning, Israel’s much-anticipated retaliatory strike against Iran was just the kind of response that President Joe Biden had recommended: limited to military targets, hard enough to send a message, but restrained enough to allow for possible de-escalation.

The attack against 20 military targets — Iranian air defenses and weapons production facilities — were limited but punishing, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday at a memorial service for victims of last year’s brutal Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, which killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians.