First, Netanyahu put all of Israel's weight on his war-only policy towards Iran that began in 1996. This policy led Iran to become a nuclear-threshold technological power, and part of the eastern axis that threatens the world order. But Israel was harmed by this strict policy of Netanyahu twice, once by the enormous progress of Iran, and by the threat that this posed and poses to Israel, by arming, upgrading, and financing all those who seek its harm. The second time that Israel is harmed by the Iranian threat is related to the defiance of the eastern axis towards the world order, a defiance in which Iran shares; This threat is already having consequences for the Eastern Axis, and there is an example of this: The US's attempts to reach an agreement with Iran, mainly to cut off Iran from the eastern axis and the alliances with China and Russia; This attempt will come at the expense of Israel in two ways, one is the rapprochement of the US with Iran, which opens the door to a new Middle Eastern order, and the other is the rapprochement of Saudi Arabia with Iran; Saudi Arabia understands what America has realized, that Iran is getting stronger. The Saudi behavior sheds light on Netanyahu's unfounded hope to reach a quick agreement with it, as a personal political lifeline, and on his longing to distance Saudi Arabia from Iran and save the war-only policy. But Saudi Arabia is now playing a double game. On the one hand, it maintains eye contact with the old order and the old world led by the USA, and conducts a dialogue with America about the thawing of relations with Israel; This is a false discourse designed to take time, because on the other hand, Saudi Arabia is replacing the American Egyptian orientation with an Iranian orientation, and has already taken some substantial steps in this regard (Egypt is alarmed and is also getting closer to Iran); And so Saudi Arabia is waiting to see what will develop, whether Iran will continue to grow stronger, and even lead to the weakening of Israel, and whether the eastern axis will indeed succeed in changing the world order, in which Saudi Arabia will have a place. Meanwhile, Netanyahu is holding his breath, and we are all holding our breath. For him it is a personal and national matter, for us a national and personal matter.

(Mati Cohen)