For the past year and a half Israel‘s citizens have been going to sleep at night thinking there is a chance that during the night the bombers will take off from their bases and we will wake up to the reality of a major war. And now, with a single stroke of a magic marker the Iranian threat has dissipated and been put off indefinitely.

In any case, it won‘t resurface before the summer of 2013, meaning after the presidential elections in Iran, and perhaps after early elections in Israel. They‘ve been driving us all mad for nothing.