Israel launches pathetic attack on Iran after realising it can't win a war

It very much looks like this was an off-ramp

After weeks of dithering, Israel finally launched its “retaliatory strike” on Iran, which no sensible person could call a “retaliation”. If only our media was run by sensible people who are capable of remembering the bombing of the Iranian embassy in Syria, and the assassination of Haniyeh in Iran, and the assassination of an Iranian official in Lebanon…