Look it up and you’ll find next to no coverage in the US media about top Israeli officials visiting Washington this week to push for military strikes against Iran, raising the risk of sparking war. Yet that’s exactly what happened.

It was widely reported in the Israeli press this week that defense minister Benny Gantz and top spy chief David Barnea were meeting with Biden administration officials on Thursday to push for a more aggressive US policy against Iran, as fraught negotiations resumed this week over restoring the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal, that was signed in 2015. According to reports, Gantz and Barnea pressed US officials to back up the push to reenter the deal with a show of force in the form of harsher sanctions and even strikes on Iranian targets.

The push comes in response to the new conservative Iranian government’s more aggressive demands in negotiations last week, at first demanding that everything covered in past talks be on the table for renegotiation before somewhat walking that position back on Sunday. But it’s also part of a pattern of Israeli aggression, with officials repeatedly threatening and sometimes carrying out attacks on Iranian targets over the course of stalled talks this year, the most recent hitting an Iranian weapons shipment in Syria on Tuesday.