"Israel" has entered a period of strategic collapse unmatched in its history, the Israeli website Zman Yisrael, the Hebrew-language sister website of the Times of Israel, has warned, arguing that the security doctrine pursued by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has left the entity isolated and diminished on the world stage.

"There has been no failure in Israeli history comparable in scale, and perhaps also in its consequences, to the perfect storm now engulfing the security doctrine pursued for years by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu," Zman Yisrael wrote.

It highlighted the distinction between this moment and past military setbacks, writing that "this is not about shocking failures such as the surprise of the 1973 Yom Kippur War or Hamas' October 7 attack." Those failures, it said, "were harsh, painful, and costly, but they resulted from a series of misjudgments in the hours leading up to the outbreak of war." It added that "those mistakes enabled the enemy, once the war began, to catch the Israeli army off guard and inflict heavy casualties on it."

Netanyahu's approach, the outlet argued, is fundamentally different. It described this as a doctrine pursued with little meaningful opposition since Netanyahu returned to the premiership in 2009, one that gained momentum after October 7 and culminated in the joint US-Israeli war on Iran.

According to Zman Yisrael, Netanyahu's approach rests on two main pillars: stubborn opposition to any political settlement with the Palestinians, and an obsession with the Iranian nuclear threat.

It stressed that "opposition to any settlement has been a defining feature of Netanyahu's politics," adding that "throughout his years in power, he did everything possible to thwart any opportunity for an agreement that could end the conflict, or at least reduce its intensity."

This refusal, the outlet said, "alongside the deepening of the occupation, has produced clear results," namely, "the continued erosion of support for Israel, its transformation into a pariah state in public opinion and among governments in democratic countries, the burning of bridges with its traditional bases of support in the United States, and the growing international isolation of the Zionist project."

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