“Watch the sky tonight.” The ominous words appeared on my phone somewhere over the eastern Mediterranean. After 10 hours in the air from New York, I was scrolling for developments in the Middle East during the final stretch of a flight bound for Tel Aviv when I came across the breaking news warning from an Iranian official. Hours earlier, Israel had struck Beirut’s Dahiyeh district, a Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon’s southern suburbs. Tehran was promising retaliation. “We will give a decisive