Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have led his country to a crossroads. He shows no sign of changing course, and putative regional partners who always doubted he could deliver peace now interpret the past six months as proof he never wanted a two-state solution to begin with, writes Nic Robertson.
Six months ago, I found myself couching on the runway at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, the air heavy with the noise of explosions and air raid sirens. Hamas' shocking, unprecedented attack on Israel was still under way, and I had just arrived in the country to report on it.
Even then it was clear that this was the beginning of a new and brutal chapter in this most insoluble of conflicts, but few could have predicted the hellish scale of the story that would unfold.