Aaron David Miller

but he also is able to apply ample amounts of vinegar.

And if Barack Ravid from Axios purporting is accurate, Trump actually left Netanyahu with no choice.

Comply or we will leave you.

I will leave you.

So the reason I'm persuaded about this is

is that over the course of the last six months, Trump did things in and around Benjamin Netanyahu, which also made him unique among his predecessors.

He authorized his hostage negotiator to open up a direct dialogue with Hamas in March.

He came to an agreement with the Houthis in Yemen, about which the Israelis learned after the fact.

He suspended sanctions against the Ahmad Shahra government in Syria over the objections of the Israelis.

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.