Daniel Levy

I don't think they can achieve that.

Potential downside is devastating, potentially.

Israel is already...

looking at a reality in which regional actors who were taking very seriously the idea of Israel, it's there, it's not going away, it needs to be integrated, we'll play footsie.

If only they weren't so in your face about how they treat the Palestinians, maybe they can get past that.

Those countries today look around and they say, yes, we have a problem with Iran, but who started this war?

Who managed to get America to do this against our interests?

That's a widely held position in the Gulf.

And they look and they say, our publics have been watching these images coming out of Gaza for two and a half years.

That is deeply radicalizing.

Public opinion.

They hear what Israeli leaders say.

They're openly expansionist, but also racist.

And they say this country needs to be contained.

Now, do they have the wherewithal to do it?

Can they cooperate sufficiently to do it?

Unclear.

That's, though, the potential blowback that Israel is facing.

Israel talks now about Turkey being the next Iran enemy, taking on a very major military power and NATO state.

That's not a war for tomorrow.