Israel squanders its military successes with political failures

Despite demonstrating its dominance as the military power in the Middle East and weakening its adversaries, Israel finds itself more globally isolated about 1,000 days after Hamas’s attack, compared to where it was on Oct. 6, 2023.

Israel’s reaction to Hamas’s attack, in which roughly 1,200 Israelis were killed, and 250 others were taken hostage and brought back to Gaza, was swift and immediate. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others in his Cabinet determined immediately that the threats along their borders were no longer tolerable.