Anshel Pfeffer

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205 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 4 Aug

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The Intelligence from The Economist · In arms’ way: Gaza-deal sticking points · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

He needs to show that Trump is still on his side, though we've seen in the last few weeks, quite a bit of tension betwe between

So, it's facing election.

in eighty five days.

He's behind in the polls and he needs to hold on to his coalition.

Any sign that he's prepared to withdraw from Gaza will be very disruptive to his coalition, to his far right allies.

So he's keeping quiet about this so far.

Well diplomats I've been talking to who have been involved in this say there is movement and there will be movement but it'll be much, much slower than

The announcements from Trump and from his board of peace would give the impression it'll they'll it'll be s really at a snail's pace, unlikely to see much movement before the election in Israel because Litanyao can't pay the political price of any developments in Gaza.

But there may be a window of opportunity immediately after the election.

There's there could be

A withdrawal of Israeli troops from

what's called the orange line, which is the uno the unofficial line that they currently hold, to the yellow line, which is sort of the official ceasefire lines from last October.

So these are very marginal changes.

They could also be finally the arrival in Gaza of the technocrats and they could start at least, you know, they could open their office and start taking responsibility for some parts of life in Gaza.

But these will

be slow and

Very, very small steps.

Thanks, Hall Amy, Jason.

The Intelligence from The Economist · Missing peace: will Israel imperil Iran deal? · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

The village of Majdol Zun, seven kilometers north of Israel's border with Lebanon, is deserted.

It's a Shia village.

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