A lot of Israeli officials have spent years, if not decades, lining up loudly against Iran diplomacy, and even more loudly against the Iran nuclear deal. Many won’t revisit this approach, it’s just a commitment with years of momentum behind it.
This position used to be a default in Israel, but increasingly top military intelligence officials, including generals, are contradicting it, saying that there are merits to seeing a nuclear deal with Iran, even an imperfect one.
Officials have set out that case for months, that any deal is going to limit Iran’s activities and greatly increase monitoring Iran’s civilian program, things which aren’t happening in the absence of a deal.
Moreover, and this is a somewhat less viable reason to want a deal, the generals are also saying that the deal would buy Israel time to prepare to attack Iran outright, which seems to be the sort of goal that resonates across the political mainstream within Israel.
Israel has a cynical sense of purpose…
You can chart the lbs of uranium and number of centrifuges vs the state of any Iran deal. It is clear that a deal in place results in a better situation than no deal.
It also gives Iran more time to mobilize a counter strike against Israel possibly from three fronts…!
They always have. They’ve also always said there is no evidence Iran has a nuclear weapons program – or at least that Iran hasn’t decided to do one. In that, they are in agreement with all 16 US intelligence agencies from 2007 and 2011 (haven’t seen an Iran NIE more recent.)