The lesson to be learned from the Europeans is that energy security comes from “diversity and diversity alone. You can’t be too dependent on just a single country, even if it’s your friend at that time,” says assistant professor Elai Rettig at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan.
"If President Putin were to use nuclear weapons, or any other country uses nuclear weapons first, not in response to a nuclear attack, not in response to an existential threat to their own country ... that leader should assume that they are putting the world in the high risk of a nuclear war, and nuclear exchange," US official says.
The shared interests between Israel and the Gulf states when it comes to Iran are clear. But there is little love lost between Rabat and Tehran, either.
MBZ is building the United Arab Emirates into a regional power that can lead an Arab coalition.
The alliance is back defending against its original nemesis, but this time, things are different.
For the purpose of understanding what the Iran deal means in regional terms, one must consider first the dynamics of hostile relations among tribes.
In light of the growing threat from Iran, many in Iraqi Kurdistan view the alliance with Israel as another link in the chain that will help assure the future of their autonomy and as a springboard to independence.
When Former US President Donald Trump designated Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group, the White House explained that this move recognized a reality in which Tehran not only funds terrorism but actively participates in it and uses the organization to advance its political goals.
In addition to the strategic importance of the region from Moscow's perspective, Russia's southern front in Ukraine is also historically significant.
The Jewish state is learning that it "can no longer sit on the fence as the world is increasingly being divided between democracies and autocracies," says Emmanuel Navon, analyst at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security.