Bibi Netanyahu and AIPAC supposedly hurt themselves by fighting and losing on Iran. Over at the Standard, Elliott Abrams makes many excellent points in response to this emerging conventional wisdom. I would add just one thing: Part of the CW is that Israel, Netanyahu, and AIPAC weakened themselves because American politicians have now seen that you can defy them and win. In some ways, as Abrams points out, that remains to be seen. But what would the alternative have been anyway? That people who thought the agreement poses an existential threat to Israel refuse to fight it, or pull their punches, out of fear that they might lose? Wouldn’t that have been a worse lesson to teach?