Among all Middle East countries, Israel and Palestine are probably the most focused on lining up policies and political coalitions to deal with the aftermath of the Iran agreement.
Both have much to lose or gain the “day after.” The Israeli government, which considers the agreement a strategic threat to the country’s national security, will do its utmost to undermine the agreement by interfering in the congressional debate. At the same time, it is contemplating a defense compensation package from the United States. A senior source close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity that the prime minister will demand that the US administration, both the White House and the State Department, help him brush the Palestinian issue under the carpet. Netanyahu will argue that he will not engage in a process that, according to him, risks ending up in a pro-Iranian enclave in the West Bank.
