ISRAEL PERSPECTIVE

Tel Aviv, June 7. The Jerusalem Post chains two CENTCOM-centric dispatches in under 24 hours: "US intercepts Iranian ballistic missiles" and "US shoots down two Iranian drones threatening international shipping." The vocabulary is repeated — "one-way attack drones," "ballistic missiles," "failed to reach" — to underline that Iran now only fields single-use armament, in Israeli analysts' reading a sign of Tehran's material attrition. Arutz Sheva notes briefly, without analytical expansion, that the attack targeted "commercial vessels or US forces": the Israeli read shifts the subject toward maritime commerce, that is to say toward the global purse, not toward Arab sovereignty. Implicit but central: for Israel, the fact that Iranian missiles target Bahrain and Kuwait — no longer Tel Aviv — validates the post-February doctrine that Iran has been decapitated of its strategic capabilities against Israel. The Jerusalem Post also recalls that the sequence comes "after weeks of negotiations" between Washington and Tehran — a cautious mention that acknowledges a shared Israeli sentiment: a deal is not ruled out but will not release Israel from the need to continue its own strikes in Lebanon. On narrative management, Tel Aviv does not turn the incident into a political front-page story: the strikes on U.S. bases in Manama are treated as an Iran-Pentagon affair, not as a strategic shift. It is an economical coverage that paradoxically reinforces the central Israeli narrative: the war is won, what remains is the tail.