Aaron David Miller

So Trump has more running room, more room to maneuver on Israel than any other American president.

And I think that may explain why now.

I think the September 9th strike by Netanyahu on Doha against the external leadership persuaded Trump that Netanyahu was now undermining something that was important to him.

In Doha.

Right.

And I think he began to understand that Netanyahu was undermining the Abraham Accords, creating a degree of instability in a region of the world where economic profit and financial gain requires stability.

And I think he began to see that Netanyahu was making him look weak.

And to use Trump's favorite term with respect to Putin –

Netanyahu was even playing him and believed that he had a much wider margin to do anything he wanted, he, Netanyahu, and that Trump would support him.

So I think, yeah, I think that notion that this is something important to me and I'm going to pivot from acquiescing and enabling Benjamin Netanyahu in Gaza to constraining him.

I think the funding question is critically important.

There was a report I had read that we're talking about $70 billion dollars.

for the reconstruction.

Or maybe it's not even the reconstruction day.

Maybe it's, to use a different word, maybe it's the reconstitution of gossip, because I don't know how you reconstruct a situation in which 60 to 80 percent of the housing stock and residential commercial structures have been destroyed.

In order to have any chance of doing that,

you really have to deal with the politics and the security issues because you're going to need a stable, predictable environment in order to deliver, to move from humanitarian assistance delivered on an emergency basis to a organized, developed concept for reconstruction.

And that means three issues.

Number one,

How do you deal with the demilitarization, the decommissioning of Hamas's weapons?