The Economist’s cover this week features the words “Israel Alone.” The picture is of a desert landscape and the flag of the Jewish state, bowed and taut from the pressure of gale force winds. The accompanying article sees only a “narrow path out of the hellscape of Gaza” and warns of the possibility that Israel could be “locked in the bleakest trajectory of its 75-year existence.” The country, it reckons, has “failed at home” and failed to eradicate Hamas.