This is apropos a letter to the Editor titled “Iran shattered the dream of ‘Greater Israel’” carried by the newspaper on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and yesterday.
In the end, the greatest lesson of the Iran war may be that military superiority alone cannot guarantee geopolitical victory. Nations endure through legitimacy, resilience, diplomacy, and the ability to command genuine trust among allies and populations. Israel entered the conflict hoping to reshape the Middle East in its favour. Instead, it may have triggered a historic reassessment of its role in the region and its relationship with the United States itself.
The war that was meant to establish permanent Israeli dominance instead exposed strategic overreach, weakened political consensus in Washington, strengthened Iran’s regional standing, and revived resistance movements across the Middle East. Far from inaugurating a new age of “Greater Israel,” the conflict may ultimately be remembered as the moment when the limits of Israeli power were finally exposed before the entire world.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2026
The writer is a former Press Secretary to the President, An ex-Press Minister at Embassy of Pakistan to France, a former MD, SRBC Macomb, Detroit, Michigan