During a recent trip to Cairo, Mr Netanyahu seems to have offered enough to winpraise from Egypt and start a new flurry of diplomacy that may yet lead to new peace talks.
As Lyn Arscott, head of the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers, points out, multinational energy companies rely on government concessions to dig their wells: where state-run health care is collapsing, companies can winpraise, and contracts, by taking up the slack.