from israeli officials except for an illuminating online thanks, pat. hard-right. cabinet member. it tomorrow, ben gvir posting on x lame quickly lambasted by centrist position leader yair lapid. never before has a minister in the defense cabinet done such heavy damage to the country s security it s on forgivable much& on the stakes had appeared extremely high iran s for a minister in the moments before the attack, promising instant devastating retaliation i think we first started to get an indication that wouldn t be retaliation just a few hours after the strike, i spoke to a regional intelligence source at a time, well-informed well-connected, and his assessment at that time in the early hours of this morning, what even then that iran was, wasn t going to retaliate. and i think that s obviously what we ve seen happen through the day. they re both sides seem to sort of taken a strategic