I think Freedland doesn't get it and is looking at it through the lens of Netanyahu always misrepresenting Israeli "successes". For example Hezbollah just won the majority of seats in the local elections in Lebanon.
Iraq is pertinent, Netanyahu famously said in 2002:
“There is no question whatsoever that Saddam is seeking, is working, is advancing towards to the development of nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu said in 2002 testimony to Congress. “Once Saddam has nuclear weapons, the terror network will have nuclear weapons,”
Not only did Netanyahu get the nuclear issue wrong — Saddam was not building a nuclear program after all — but he incorrectly predicted that the war would inspire an Iranian democratic uprising that would topple the theocratic regime.
“If you take out Saddam, Saddam’s regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region,” Netanyahu claimed. “And I think that people sitting right next door in Iran, young people, and many others, will say the time of such regimes, of such despots is gone.”
Looking at the damage right now in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu's earlier statements about destroying most of Iran's missiles was wrong. He most probably told Trump a variation of the above and has just appealed to the Iranian people to overthrow their government, instead Iranians are out on the streets asking for more hit's against Israel.