Aaron David Miller

And cultivating those relationships, which both Witkoff and particularly Jared Kushner have done, particularly the Emiratis and the Saudis,

Basically, yes, that certainly contributed to the Arab dimension of Trump's transactional nature.

It's the Israeli dimension, though, to me, that is key.

And what Trump was able to do and what made his transaction, in my judgment, possible in the one area that made this deal possible, which was his relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu,

was two things which have impeded and constrained American presidents, almost all of them, from expanding the margin of pressure that they're prepared to place on an Israeli prime minister.

One is the emotional identification.

Trump, unlike Bill Clinton, who wrote in his memoir, I loved Rabin as I love no man.

Clinton was in love, literally, with the idea of Israel, the people of Israel, the security of Israel.

Joe Biden, I listened to him three days after October 7th talk about the, quote, black hole of loss, unquote, and the savagery of what occurred on October 7th and conflate that almost certainly with the tragedy of

that had occurred in his own personal life.

Trump has freed himself from, in my judgment, the emotional constraints which have prevented a number of American presidents in having the kind of conversations that Trump had with Netanyahu.

But it's more than that.

It's the politics as well.

Trump is the first American president who has such a tight grip on the Republican Party

That, in effect, Benjamin Netanyahu has cultivated the Republican Party for years as a sort of higher court of appeals if he ever was boxed in by a Democratic president, which he was, I mean, in 2015 when Obama did the nuclear deal with Iran.

John Boehner invites Netanyahu to address Congress and Netanyahu takes it up.

It tries to end run the Obama administration.

Benjamin Netanyahu cannot end run Donald Trump because Trump owns the Republican Party.

American views of Israel, look at the Pew polls, have fundamentally been altered as a consequence.

of Israeli policies in Gaza.