Despite stunning early successes in Israel’s unprecedented strikes on Iran, a weekend of intensive bombardment and retaliation is raising questions about Israel’s exit strategy – how it can end this conflict with its ambitious goals achieved.

Israel and Iran both have little incentive to stop and no obvious route to outright victory. Much depends on President Trump.

The U.S. has denied any involvement in Israel’s strikes, a position that the Trump Administration has repeated multiple times since Friday. “We are not involved in strikes aga