People keep calling this an Iran war. It wasn't.
It was a campaign to eliminate the only military force in the region capable of threatening Israel. The United States did the heavy lifting. Israel had token involvement in the strikes on Iran, then immediately pivoted to seizing territory in Lebanon and accelerating the destruction of Gaza, leaving the U.S. to fight Iran.
That is not the alliance that the framing of "The Israeli-American war against Iran" suggests. That's just a client state managing its patron.
This pattern goes back decades. I lay it out over pages of documented evidence in my book, but there isn't space here. The short version: Iraq. Libya. Syria. Each time the U.S. degraded or destroyed a military that made Israel nervous. Each time we were told it was about something else. Weapons of mass destruction. A dictator killing his own people. Terrorism.
Now Iran's military is degraded. The last regional power capable of threatening Israel is on its heels.
13 Americans died in this war. Israel lost 11 soldiers. We did the fighting. They kept the land.
There will never be peace in the Middle East as long as Israel, a theocracy with undeclared nuclear weapons, continues to expand its territory with American money, American soldiers, and American lives.
Israel is one of four countries that has never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The others are India, Pakistan, and South Sudan.