After Oct. 7, Netanyahu made his famous threats to change the face of the Middle East. He had what he wanted on more than one front, as the region has changed a lot since that date, regimes that have fallen, others have changed their face, and with them the absence of great leaders, and most importantly, the change that has affected the borders and geography on several fronts.
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This is apparently not enough for Netanyahu, who has lost his major battle with Iran, after the failure of the plans to overthrow the Supreme Leader's rule, and I don't think he will back down from trying.
But what Netanyahu did not promise or mention also happened after October 7. Israel, a state and a society, has become living in a state of existential anxiety, manifested in a constant and exaggerated sense of danger from all directions.
It views its war on Lebanon from the perspective of this danger, and its occupation of Syrian territory as a front for a possible attack by hostile militias. Its insistence on swallowing two-thirds of the Gaza Strip reflects in part the hysteria that prevailed after that day three years ago.
New anxiety and obsession with the danger of the border, a scenario that simulates the October 7 attack, and Israel's classification of its border with Jordan as a potential source of threat in the future. The border is the longest with the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Despite Israel's full knowledge that Jordan is a stable country, in which the military and security establishment adheres to its responsibility and carries out its duties in protecting its borders, in defense of a purely Jordanian interest, circles in the Netanyahu government and its security institutions do not stop looking at its eastern borders with great suspicion, suspicion and fear.
The Netanyahu government has embarked on the construction of a security wall along this border. Plans for the project were on the table before the recent events in Gaza, but they accelerated from a distance, allocated the necessary financial allocations for this purpose, and strengthened its military capabilities with a newly established military division to guard the border with Jordan.
Security gaps already exist at the border, from which smugglers of weapons and drugs infiltrate, and Jordanian border guard forces regularly detect infiltration attempts by foreign nationals seeking to enter Israel for work and residence.
Recently, Israeli security and political circles have entered into a long debate after statements by the head of the Shin Bet in which he warned of a scenario of an attack on the city of Eilat by the Houthis, similar to what happened in the Gaza Strip.
This discussion shows how anxious these circles are, given the city's geographical location and its isolation from its inner depth. A routine jet ski accident near its coast sparked the debate about the imminent danger to Eilat, and supports the Shin Bet director's hypothetical scenario.
Israel's great military strength, its air and intelligence superiority, and the destruction it has achieved in its wars in its surroundings, do not seem to be enough to make it feel safe and stable. It has become an entity that pursues its own obsessions and lives in a constant state of fear and alertness.
The power did not give her the feeling of long-lasting. More border walls, the occupation of other people's land, and the daily killing of Palestinians will only give Israel more fear for the future.
Gaza has never been a candidate to turn the tide in Israel and the region, so how can you predict the source of the threat in a region that has all turned into an Israeli war zone?
