Pakistan, July 15 -- Wars are often remembered by the names of those who started them. History, however, ultimately judges them by the objectives they failed to achieve.

The conflict that engulfed the Middle East after October 7, 2023, was presented by Israel as a war for security. Yet as Israeli forces moved from Gaza into Lebanon, entrenched themselves deeper in the occupied Palestinian territories and crossed into new areas of southern Syria, a larger strategic pattern became increasingly difficult to ignore.

One does not need an official policy paper to acknowledge the concept of "Greater Israel" because it remains embedded in strands of Revisionist Zionism and religious nationalism that regard much of historic Palestine as the perm...