Israel turned fuel and infrastructure into fair game, then the latest Haifa strike came along and slapped the smugness clean off their faces. Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu has stood in front of cameras and said this war could end “a lot faster than people think”, and that Iran is being decimated, and then Haifa has gone and done the very rude thing of catching fire again. The Bazan refinery there in Haifa has been hit again in a missile barrage from Iran and Lebanon, a fire broke out, black smoke went up over one of Israel’s key northern industrial sites, and that was the second attack on that facility since this war started. No deaths were reported from that strike. But that doesn’t really rescue Netanyahu from the problem at all. In some ways it makes the problem nastier, because the humiliation here is not mainly a body count story. It is a con ...