The agreement was achieved. Anyone with eyes in his head could have written this predictable and inevitable scenario the moment that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani rose to the UN dais to deliver a conciliatory speech, then softened public opinion in the interviews he gave to all possible media outlets in the United States.

Those with especially good prognostication skills could have predicted that Iran would achieve its nuclear-project settlement the moment that Rouhani was elected and promised his nation, mainly the youths who elected him — to Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s sorrow — that his main mission was to remove the sanctions that are choking Iran.

Everyone saw, everyone heard, and only Israel preferred to bash its head against the wall off inevitable diplomatic failure. One does not have to be brilliant to do a post-mortem exam when defeat is written clearly on the "results" blackboard. But in the case of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Iran, soul-searching is absolutely essential.

Food for thought: Below are ten points that testify to the dogmatic thinking of Israel’s decision-makers.