It is not difficult to guess who they learned from. One way or another, today's truly alarming news did not happen in Iran, but here with us. Since the Iranian attack on Saturday, Israel has at least twice faced a counter-attack landing on Iranian territory.

The advantage of such an attack is that there is little chance that it would drag the parties into war. Israel then faced a barrage of pleas, promises, proposals, ideas, and recommendations from all its allies, in the Middle East and beyond. In the end, what came to fruition, according to foreign publications, is a hybrid that allows Israel to mark a "V" (green, like Smotrich) on the "response" rubric, but also helps it leverage the attack for more significant moves in the area of sanctions on Iran and its allies. The regional air defense that showed skin and sinews in front of the whole world on Saturday night. It seemed that there was no escape from an Israeli attack. A hint of what was to come was already yesterday, when all sorts of senior figures from the ultra-orthodox world announced that Israel would respond to the attack.