war. this back-and-forth between israel proper and iran proper. we do see fighting between these two heavyweights but they are normally done by proxies, like hezbollah in lebanon, hamas, which we have seen engaged in the past six months. all of these groups backed by iran and were in the balance. they could have been targets in what could have been a major conflict but instead, it looks like both parties have now stepped back from the edge of a really, really blistering war. we do have fresh reporting from the new york times. they have set it looks as though israel's pinpoint precision target, which had not done damage was actually meant to send a message to the iranians. it was disabling into aerial systems that the iranians could have used to strike down other missiles. it sounded like it did little damage of a map of the iranians have spent much of the past two days almost mocking the israeli counterattacks saying it had