ISRAEL PERSPECTIVE

Tel Aviv approaches the night of June 3 with the eye of a military analyst. Arutz Sheva publishes in real time the airport emergency declaration and the video of Patriot batteries intercepting Iranian missiles over Kuwait. Haaretz documents the sequence coldly: CENTCOM struck a military compound on Qeshm Island in response to 'aggressive activity' by Tehran, and the Revolutionary Guards retaliated against the Fifth Fleet in Bahrain and an airbase in an unspecified country. The Jerusalem Post pushes the denial further: US forces publicly called the Iranian Patriot theory 'false', adding that Iran struck the civilian terminal with a 'deliberate, calculated and unjustified attack'. The paper then details the expulsion: Kuwait banished two Iranian diplomats and declared the chargé d'affaires persona non grata within 24 hours. Israeli coverage shares with Washington a common read — Tehran deliberately targeted civilians — but adds a level of tactical precision specific to it: exact interception figures, the role of US and Bahraini batteries, the minute-by-minute timing. No Israeli paper picks up the Iranian Patriot theory; none mention the Korea Herald analysis of American strategic failure either. The sequence reads as a military debrief — Israel watches Kuwait as a neighbor in the conflict.