Both Iran and Israel have endorsed this hyper-fragile development, although all recent experience shows that Israel’s words in these matters cannot be trusted. If there is indeed a pause in hostilities, it represents, if not a win for Iran, at least a setback for Benjamin Netanyahu’s stated objectives. So the thwarting of Netanyahu’s plan, if that is what has happened, to plunge the country into ungovernable mayhem is significant. The “two-state solution” in Israel-Palestine, long-championed by the well-meaning as well as the imperial cynics, is being buried under the depravity of the Israeli state. Too often presented as a “solution” to the “Palestine problem” — which is now scarcely plausible in any case — it leaves the “Israel problem” untouched.