(New York Times) Thomas L. Friedman - There now needs to be a massive, sustained, global initiative to isolate Iran - to deter it from trying such an adventure again. There must be major diplomatic and economic consequences for Iran. When Tehran fired all those drones and missiles, it could not know that virtually all of them would be intercepted. Some were shot down over Jerusalem. A missile could have hit al-Aqsa Mosque. Another could have hit the Israeli Parliament or a high-rise apartment house, causing massive casualties. We are talking about an escalation without precedent. Without a U.S.-led global initiative to impose sanctions on Iran and further isolate it on the world stage, Iran's behavior would be tacitly normalized. Iran just showed the whole world that Israel and its Western allies have far superior antimissile capabilities than Iran has missile capabilities. Ha'aretz veteran military correspondent Amos Harel wrote Sunday: We are talking about "an unprecedented achievement in the history of Israel's wars - albeit with some help from friends - that largely takes away the main card held by Iran and the axis: drones and missiles."
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