Israel can go to a public struggle in the administration as Netanyahu did.
Israel can also take an inclusive, flattering approach, such as that of Lapid and Bennett.
The basic facts remain the same.
For the US, Iran is a strategic threat. For us, it is an existential threat. For America Iran is a major concern, one of many across the globe. For us Iran is an octopus head that sends deadly suffocating arms across the region.
Netanyahu, in order to curb Iran, raised the issue on the world agenda, effectively forcing Obama to impose sanctions on it and then reach an agreement with it that hampers the nuclear program.
Subsequently, the pressure he exerted contributed to Trump's decision to withdraw from the nuclear deal and impose crippling sanctions on Iran.
Nuclear talks between Iran and the powers in Vienna // Archive photo: Reuters
Netanyahu relied on Trump, but according to the former prime minister's successors, he did not prepare an alternative in case the previous president left office.
This is how the Bennett-Lapid government found itself, according to its senior officials, "with a significant gap with Iran."
Whether Trump was an attacker in Iran or not, no one knows.
Evidence, the Iranians started the race to upgrade the nuclear program already in his time and despite the sanctions.
To be sure, now the ticking bomb - in every sense - is at the door of the current government, as Biden's America will not operate in Iran.
This week I asked Robert Mali, Biden's envoy on the Iran issue, whether the United States is prepared for the North Korean scenario - that is, Iran will fool the Americans, sign an agreement and then break into the bomb.
"It worries us," Mali replied.
He did not raise an issue that is even close to using force against Iran.
For him, the diplomatic route is the only route.
Israel, no matter who heads it, cannot come to terms with the American approach.
Sooner or later, it will have to face Iran and at least in the first stage it will do it alone.