Benjamin Netanyahu

willing to be heavily engaged and visibly engaged for them was a huge positive.

I think they feel that they can work out the details, many of which they may not particularly like as the process unfolds.

But what's vital is for Trump to be involved.

So the image of him standing next to Netanyahu saying he wants to play this role, that was worthy of their support.

And that's why I think he got the kind of show of support that he did.

And then immediately after his meeting with President Trump, Prime Minister Netanyahu, speaking to a domestic audience, said in Hebrew, Don't worry, this is never going to happen.

Well, you're right to say that Netanyahu was talking out of both sides of his mouth.

And one could say, in fact, he's been doing that for many years on this topic.

If you go back in time, there was a moment when Netanyahu claimed he supported a two-state solution, as did a lot of mainstream Israeli leaders.

Though it must be said that if you look at

Netanyahu's actions over the years, he's really consistently undermined the prospect for a Palestinian state, whether it is expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank or colluding with Hamas in the governance of Gaza, which had the effect of splitting the

geared toward allowing or encouraging the creation of a Palestinian state.

Now, in some senses, he's being clearer.

He's saying quite publicly that at the moment, he thinks a Palestinian state is a dire threat to Israel's security, but he's not willing to completely defy an American president, especially Donald Trump, when he includes this kind of

fairly wishy-washy language in his plan for Gaza.

So I think from Netanyahu's point of view, he sees this as something he's simply going to have to live with.

And perhaps he's also confident that Hamas will never accept it anyway.

So he won't be forced to live with anything that's in this plan anyway.

Well, Riyad Mansour is looking at this from his particular vantage point as a diplomat who has spent years, if not decades, lobbying countries to recognize a Palestinian state.

And in that, he and they have been remarkably successful.