On April 11, as a tenuous cease-fire took hold between the United States and Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video claiming “historic achievements” for his war strategy. But critics at home and abroad saw things differently. Israel’s deadly April 8 strike on central Beirut—labeled “Bloody Wednesday” by horrified Lebanese—came in open defiance of the U.S.-Iranian cease-fire. Israelis across the spectrum express exhaustion and frustration at permanent war that never