Hassan Nasrallah is dead. The Hezbollah he led is in tatters. Israel and Iran stand on the brink of all out, devastating war. For the optimists, it is the supreme opportunity. 

The Iranian regime will fall “sooner than people think,” as Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put it in an address to the Iranian public (delivered in English).

“When that day comes, the terror network that the regime built in five continents will be bankrupt, dismantled,” he announced. “Our two ancient peoples, the Jewish people and the Persian people, will finally be at peace.”

“Israel has now its greatest opportunity in 50 years, to change the face of the Middle East,” Naftali Bennet, former prime minister and perennial Netanyahu rival, wrote after Iran fired rockets at Israel on Tuesday night. “The leadership of Iran, which used to be good at chess, made a terrible mistake this evening.

“We must act now to destroy Iran’s nuclear program, its central energy facilities, and to fatally cripple this terrorist regime.”