Shaky Israel-Iran Ceasefire Points to Unfinished Business

What Trump has dubbed the ‘12-day War’ could be just the opening salvo of a much longer conflict At the very onset of the Second World War, a French journalist came up with the expression drôle de guerre or “phoney war” to describe the initial months of calm that followed the formal declaration of war between France and Germany. Although different, the Israel-Iran war that began on 13 June may well be entering its own drôle de guerre—an eerie, unsettling period of quiet, only fools would misconstrue as peace. The abrupt conclusion to what US President Donald Trump has dubbed…