Then there was the death on Sunday (Monday AEST) of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, along with the foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and six other people apparently by accident – “apparently” because the possibility that the helicopter they were in was brought down by foreign or domestic saboteurs can’t be fully ruled out. Israelis are not ‘settler-colonialists’. Jews believe they are originally from the land of Israel because they are. But whatever caused the crash, it both betrays and portends weakness for the regime. Betrays, because competent states should be able to fly VIP aircraft without incident (the notable exception being...