There is a particular kind of danger in Middle East diplomacy that no memorandum of understanding can fully insure against: a leader with nothing left to lose and an army still under his command. That is Benjamin Netanyahu today. Washington and Tehran have signed a framework meant to end the active hostilities that have consumed the region since March. Israel was not a party to it. And Netanyahu has made it unambiguous that he does not consider himself bound by its terms. The Refusal Within days of the framework taking effect, Netanyahu stood at a ceremony in northern Israel and declared that the Israeli military “will restore security and prosperity to northern towns,” and that doing so “requires maintaining the […]