Three wars made blips on Israel’s radar screen this week, and then disappeared.

Israel conducts two out of the three against its will. One is the war against Iran’s nuclear plans, which played on the imaginations of many observers Oct. 6 when reports emerged about a tremendous and mysterious explosion at the secretive Iranian site in Parchin. The second, another quiet war, is waged against Hezbollah. It made an appearance this week for a brief moment in Israeli and Lebanese headlines when IDF forces confronted Lebanese armed operatives who entered Israeli territory at the Mount Dov area on Oct. 5. The third war is the one that Israel is waging of its own choice, and that is the war with the United States.

Within this framework, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not content himself with hurling sharp criticism at the US administration Oct. 1, during his visit to New York and Washington. He added insult to injury at the beginning of this week when, in an interview with CBS, Netanyahu argued that the US condemnation of Israeli construction in Jerusalem’s Givat Hamatos neighborhood contradicts "American values." Netanyahu’s allegation led to the US response that was unprecedented even against the background of the current "war" between Jerusalem and Washington. White House representatives labeled Netanyahu’s statement as “odd” and specified the “American values” on which the historic US support of Israel, including the financing of the Iron Dome air defense system, is based. It appears that at this rate, in the next round, the White House will progress from the use of “odd” to “bizarre” with regard to Netanyahu’s inexplicable behavior.

Let’s start with Parchin. No one in Israel has taken responsibility for that explosion, and officials have awkwardly distanced themselves from the entire affair. Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz appeared on Israeli television on the night of Oct. 6 and said, “I don’t know if there was an explosion and if so, where it was exactly.”