Just as the external threat of Hamas destroyed the anti-government protest movement after October 7, so could the U.S.-Israeli threat unify Iranians in support of their own corrupt, theocratic leadership, even if they oppose it
In an opinion piece in the Haaretz Hebrew edition on March 3, Akiva Novick fumed about what seemed to him to be an exaggerated comparison, common in leftist discourse, between the increasingly religious character of Israel and the Islamist extremism of the ayatollah state.