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Tony Blair's role in the Iraq war.
has left a sour taste in his mouth with many people in the region, not just the Arabs.
And so we don't know if Blair's going to be able to take over as executive director.
But President Trump has reaffirmed today that he's going to be the head of the Board of Peace.
That means you're overseeing not just the redevelopment of Gaza, but also all the involvement and, quite frankly, thousands of years of hate and bloodshed and carnage that's going around Gaza.
Jack?
Well, Steve, that's right.
And of course, President Trump putting his name on it is absolutely going to lead to a guarantee, but then also perhaps a check that will begin to see who is going to be wanting to cash that there in the region.
Politically speaking, in Israel, there's obviously serious questions about whether or not Yetanyahu's
coalition will be able to continue.
Because as you can see here, peace is extremely popular in the area.
And there's no question you heard the boos a couple of days ago when Steve Witkoff was talking about the deal.
And he mentions Netanyahu and they immediately start booing.
This is something where they view President Trump as the one who came in
work with the Qataris, work with regional partners, came in, put the leverage on Hamas, was able to get the deal done by having those direct negotiations not going through and having the IDF continue operations, which is what Netanyahu wanted to continue.
So there's real questions as to what happens politically speaking there in the Knesset, and there's no
And it's no coincidence that that's exactly where President Trump is going to be speaking very soon.
So yes, he is absolutely involving himself directly in this process, the same way, by the way, that he did in Ukraine-Russia.
Kurt Mills, the president was as President Trump's a master of messaging and a massive master of narrative warfare and also branding.
He referred to Netanyahu as a wartime president.