About three weeks ago, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Bnei Gantz convened the UN Security Council ambassadors in Jerusalem, informing them that at its current uranium enrichment rate, Iran would become a nuclear threshold within 70 days. Now there are about seven weeks left if their hourglass Was real.
In this situation, it made sense for the Israeli prime minister to arrive in Washington in a hurry to make it clear to the US president that Israel is preparing to attack the Iranian nuclear facilities in Qom, Purdue, Natanz and Isfahan, or any of them, to stop the hourglass.
The same prime minister would say that Israel would greatly appreciate American assistance in the planned attack, but would be content with an American promise not to interfere.
On the face of it, one could understand Naftali Bennett's visit to Washington that way.
After all, he insisted on reaching the White House in the midst of one of the biggest strategic catastrophes in the United States since the 9/11 attacks. The President.
Biden has proven in recent weeks that his judgment is flawed.
Following the shameful departure he is conducting in Kabul, with no logic and no prior coordination with the Allies, his credibility at the bottom and his word no longer has weight.
If it was important for Bennett to arrive right now, then it could be assumed that he intended to leverage the crisis to make it clear that Israel is not falling apart like the United States, that it will maintain its security and the time to act has arrived.
But that's not what it was.
While Bennett said he had an entirely new strategy to present to Biden, the president replied that he would not agree to Iran having nuclear weapons.
But Biden also said he is not with us now.
He does not agree that it is time to act.
the opposite.
He said he adhered to diplomatic reconciliation.
Obviously, if Iran is seven weeks away from a nuclear-threshold state, Biden's position means that the US administration has no problem coming to terms with such a situation.
In Biden and Bennett's joint appearance in the Oval Office, we saw no trace of the tension surrounding the nuclear issue.
Biden said that if diplomacy fails, "other options" will be considered.
This is a weak statement even from the remarks of Barack Obama at the time who explicitly spoke of a "military option."
Bennett, for his part, seemed excited and unmoved.
Biden failed in Afghanistan because he thought that with a backlash from the media he did not need an orderly exit plan.
He was sure he was setting and everyone was standing still.
The failure in Afghanistan shows that the reality is not impressed by PR.
The reporters - Bennett's real PR people - claimed that the importance of the meeting was actually its existence. They said that Bennett and Biden had an excellent relationship. Next to Israel, so maybe Bennett achieved his goal in Washington, but apparently the State of Israel did not achieve anything. The reality, not the PR, is what will determine.