David Remnick, editor of “The New Yorker”, is out today with a deeply reported story, based on interviews from inside Israel, on the country’s uneasy mix of euphoria and dread after its 12-day war with Iran.
28 July 2025 – – It is very much a big picture look. One quote:
“For all the triumphalism, for all the talk about an imminent golden age, Israel’s future is still shadowed by the ugly persistence of occupation, the long and bitter memory of its enemies, and the deepening moral cost of Gaza. The battered, nearly levelled cities of the Strip look like a reckoning deferred.
Iran’s regime may be chastened, but it is not gone, and the nuclear question may resurface before long.
Israel has shown, time and again, that it is better at winning wars than at winning what comes after. The celebrations are real, but so is the dread – about the next missile, the next front, the next generation raised amid the rubble and the rage”.
This piece is well worth your time. It might be behind a pay wall for many of you so I have put it onto my Slideshare which you can access by clicking here. The “Copyright Gods” will surely punish me.