By Adina Kutnicki

AS an American-Israeli investigative journalist living in Israel, it is incumbent to analyze the facts at hand, regardless of the personal discomfort. And, as a conservative and a Zionist, to boot, it is more than painful to keep hammering home the betrayals of the Biden regime, as well as PM Bennett’s. It is what it is.

AS per the analysis within Jerusalem-based DEBKAfile Military Intelligence, while it is beyond alarming and shocking, it is not unexpected. Not at all. Wait and see.

THIS is so for all those with eyes and ears and a modicum of rational-based thinking — as to what’s been going down in both countries, yes, unmitigated western disasters!

BUT to shore up the above reality-based strategic assessment, the following should more than serve as sign-posts and precursors — to how the looming Israeli disaster came from there to here. Beyond a national nightmare …

• PM Bennett Departs Washington After ‘Warm And Helpful Meeting’ With Biden
• Can a Bennett-Lapid Government Rise to the Challenges Facing the Jewish State? 
• The Strategic Consequences of Bennett’s Megalomania 
• Bennett cancels visit to Arab town at Ra’am’s request – ISLAMIC TERRORIST PARTY CALLS THE SHOTS IN ISRAEL
• Likud: Bennett gives billions to Mansour Abbas, 0 to soldiers

and so on and so forth …

STILL yet, when it comes to the most pressing and looming danger to Israel’s very existence, it begs the following multi-tiered questions:

 – What changed since Bennett’s speech before the UN, September 27, 2021?

Iran nuclear programme at ‘critical point’, Israeli Prime Minister warns

–   In which rational universe would any Israeli PM, a so-called Jewish nationalist, no less, trust the most hostile American regime to Israel in years, let alone one which abandoned Afghanistan to the terrorist Taliban, leaving Americans and allies behind in the process; allowed China to take over Hong Kong; isn’t lifting a finger to assist Taiwan; is siccing the FBI and DOJ on all those who dare to criticize their dictates, and so many more betrayals?

 – Atop it all, the Russian regime always has Iran’s back and its proxy pawns, as such, why in heaven’s name would any Israeli leader put the fate of the nation in their hands, too?

ALL of which leads to only one realistic conclusion: Bennett’s Islamic partner, Mansour Abbas, is surely threatening to bring down the government, that is, if he refuses to execute a so-called deal! In fact, regardless of Abbas’s Sunni background and Iran being Shia, well, when it comes to Israel’s destruction, Sunni and Shia ALWAYS hold hands. Indeed,

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend“

IPSO facto, the following DEBAfile Military Intelligence assessment mandates the most blaring alarm bells, bar none!

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Israel backs down on Iran threshold

Israel, Iran, the US and Russia are engaged in secret talks for Israel’s acceptance of Iran as a nuclear threshold power in return for a US-Russian guarantee that Tehran will not cross the threshold to make a nuclear bomb.  DEBKAfile: Kremlin sources say that reports of a forthcoming summit between Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, possibly on Oct. 22, attest to those talks making progress towards a deal.

A strong clue to this secret ploy also came from Washington. Last week, an Israeli delegation led by National Security Adviser Eyal Hulata met with his US counterpart Jack Sullivan for what was officially billed as a discussion of Plan B, should President Joe Biden’s bid to revive the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran fail. This presentation was meant to distract from the secret track afoot brokered by the two big powers on the Iranian nuclear issue.

Straight after the two security advisers ended their talks, Secretary of State Antony Blinken was on the phone to Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow. He next called Israeli FM Yair Lapid and arranged for them to meet in Washington next week.

DEBKAfile draws three conclusions from these interchanges:

1. Russia is for the first time (since the original 2015 nuclear accord) joining the US in an intensive round of secret talks for resolving the Iranian nuclear issue by diplomacy.
2. Moscow, although Iran’s leading nuclear power provider, is amenable to a mediation effort for bridging the nuclear dispute between Tehran and Jerusalem.
3. Putin agrees to join the Biden administration in guarantees that would bar Iran from going past the threshold to actually develop a nuclear weapon. Moscow would further guarantee Iran’s honoring of the new accord, on which Moscow, Washington, Iran – and Israel, too, this time round – are toiling.

If this move goes according to plan and Tehran refrains from heaping up unexpected obstacles, a new nuclear accord may be in the making. By late October or early November, it may have matured ready for Iran and the original six powers (US, Russia, China, France, Germany and the EU) to affix their signatures, certified for the first time by Israel.

It may be premature to assess the regional implications of this deal should it comes to fruition. However, the Bennett-Lapid government appears to be willing to back down on Israel’s most fundamental policy objective, namely, never to allow Iran to reach the point of a nuclear threshold power. It would also mean that Israel may be finally satisfied with a joint US-Russian guarantee against Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon.

That this secret diplomatic track is alive was hinted at by certain nuances in Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Avivi Kohavi’s words on Oct. 5, during the ceremony marking the changeover of intelligence (AMAN) chiefs. (Maj. Gen. Ahron Haliva takes over from Maj. Gen. Tamir Hayman). “Preparations for destroying Iran’s nuclear capabilities will continue in every arena and at all times,” said Gen. Kohavi. “Those preparations continue to develop and improve.” He went on to stress: “In case of any circumstances that may arise, we are bound to stand ready with an effective and timely military answer.”

The army chief’s words were couched in conditional terms and the future tense, indicating that Israel’s “preparations” were advancing but not at this point ready to go. While Kohavi made it clear to Tehran that Israel’s military plans were firmly in place for any eventualities, he refrained from language that might spoil the diplomatic game.