The IDF bombed and destroyed the Iranian embassy in Damascus that killed, among others, senior Iranian generals; and then Israel brazenly warned Iran against retaliating, with some U.S./Canadian/British news headlines referencing it as though Iran’s retaliation would be the first strike.
This reveals a great yet misplaced sense of entitlement by the Israeli state, not to mention that of the U.S. via its own corrupt foreign policy.
It’s as though it feels it can claim it was being proactive in its militarily unprovoked killings in another country of Iranians [or other foreign nationals] it deems a threat, and its suspicions should suffice as justification. … They don’t.