Aaron David Miller

And he announced negotiations with Iran, much to the dismay of the Israeli prime minister, in the presence of that Israeli prime minister.

And I think Netanyahu did not have to be threatened with specific sanctions.

Trump had signaled to Netanyahu

that there would be costs and consequences.

One final point.

And because Benjamin Netanyahu is now focused on more than anything else, how to win the next election.

Government comes to term in October of 2026.

It won't last that long.

Spring, probably.

He knows that to win an election, he's going to need Donald Trump, not just as a bystander,

but as an open campaigner.

More popular in Israel, Dave, right now than Benjamin Netanyahu.

And the notion somehow that we don't intercede in Israeli politics and they don't intercede in ours is just an urban myth.

You saw what the president did during that speech to the Knesset.

And only three American presidents before have addressed the Knesset.

Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton...

and George W. Bush.

I mean, none of them would have even come close to basically turning to the president of Israel and saying implicitly, why don't you grant him a pardon?

I mean, you know, on trial for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in a Jerusalem district court four years now, almost five years in running now.

Yeah, I think that's a part of the calculation.