How Netanyahu stole defeat from the jaws of victory
No commentator on 7 October last year - myself included - would have predicted that the war would still be being fought with the utmost ferocity a year on.
No one would have predicted a year ago that Israel would be fighting for longer than it did when it established its state in 1948. All wars Israel has fought since have been brief shows of absolute strength.
Not for want of trying.
Israel has bombed Gaza into the stone age. More than 70 percent of its homes have been damaged or destroyed. Israel is in the process of doing the same to Tyre, the southern suburbs of Beirut and many other parts of southern Lebanon.
No one is raising the white flag. Nor are there significant signs of revolt from a population - now living in tents - that has lost over 41,000 people directly from bombing, and three or four times more in indirect deaths.
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