The war between Israel and Hamas has completely disrupted the puzzle that the United States and Saudi Arabia had put together for months to isolate Iran, the official supplier of Palestinian terrorists. Taking advantage of the money laundering operation that Prince Bin Salman has initiated in the oil dictatorship, North American diplomacy promoted a peace agreement with Israel, in the style of those signed with Egypt or Jordan. A potentially lethal pact for the Tehran regime because it would have become the only enemy capable of threatening Israeli survival in the area.
Faced with these prospects, the reaction of Iran and its acolytes was only a matter of time. The Hamas terrorists were the ideal cannon fodder to carry out the incursion into Israel, because they combine their desire for revenge against the Jewish enemy and their obedience to the ayatollahs, the sponsor who provides them with weapons. Thus, Iran achieved three objectives in one go. Deliver a lethal blow to Israel, buy time in its project to develop nuclear weapons and destroy the incipient Israeli-Saudi pact that threatened its hegemonic role in the Middle East. And all without getting your hands dirty, just moving the puppet strings.
For Assad, Syria's leader, it was also a good time to fan the hornet's nest. On the verge of winning the civil war, the outstanding debt with Iran had to be settled, in this case by covering up the Hizbullah militias, which have fought side by side with Syrian soldiers and are now trying to open a second front on Israel's northern border. .
Even Russia has benefited from the new war. An essential partner for Assad's victory and with the Ukrainian front bogged down, leaving the world spotlight serves to whitewash Putin's excesses.
With so many interests at stake, the surprising thing is that Israel's security services did not detect the preparations for the worst terrorist attack that the country has suffered in its history. The consequence is that the aura of invincibility that the Jewish State had has fallen at the worst moment, when it is most under attack.
