Replying a a bunch of posts in this thread:

1. The purpose of the school was to COMMIT USrael to a long fight - a kind of "burning the ships" except via war crime.

2. Not hitting desalination plants right away is because Iran was not hitting Israeli desalination plants right away - war is tit-for-tat

3. The funeral was specifically happening during America's 250th independence day, because it's absolutely sure that Iran had made provisions to do HORRIBLE THINGS if that funeral was hit, and they definitely talked with the Ameraelis about what they would do. So it was in everyone's interest to stand down for that period...