Senior Israeli Official: "Agreement Worries Us"

A senior Israeli official tells Ynet the pact "worries us" and is "aimed at Israel," specifically flagging the risk that Egypt could later join, bringing what the official called "hostile forces to Israel's doorstep." Netanyahu's office and the Foreign Ministry decline formal comment. Israeli analysts are more divided — INSS's Yoel Guzansky calls it "an alignment, perhaps... not necessarily military," while JINSA's Blaise Misztal argues the three signatories' "only strategic rationale that unites them all is an incompatible one" since each wants leadership without accepting the others' primacy.