Advocate’s Brief: Tuesday, March 31

The war’s architects declared “completion” while the war’s enemies — diplomatic, legal, and kinetic — declared nothing of the sort.

Shalom, friends.

Five weeks in, the military campaign against Iran has degraded some 70% of its military-industrial base, destroyed a chemical weapons lab hidden under a university, and collapsed daily missile fire from ninety launches to ten. Israel’s defense establishment used the word “completion” for the first time this week. Your conversations over Pesach will center on what that word actually means — and who benefits from the ambiguity.