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The anxious wait for round two

The Israeli defence cabinet has a number of options but for now, Netanyahu is playing the waiting game

Bejamin Netanyahu Prime Minister of Isarel / X/@IsraeliPM

The world waits with bated breadth on what it is the government of Benjamin Netanyahu will do in response to the Iranian missile and drone barrage a few days ago that killed a young Israeli girl and very limited physical damage. Intelligence and technology managed to bring down most of the 300-odd projectiles in what is seen as a Iranian retribution to a hit on its diplomatic building in Syria, killing some top generals of the Revolutionary Guards.

All the necessary noises have been made at the United Nations and world capitals including India calling for restraint, as if anyone would call for the opposite. Still the eerie feeling that Tel Aviv may not sit quiet to Teheran’s offensive, the first of a direct kind in a quite a long time. 

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