Donald J. Trump

They're starting to come in now.

So the president will be, I'm sure, momentarily.

Joel, give me a minute or two summary of your thinking as we get ready for the president to take the stage, the podium in the Knesset.

I'm thinking this is the culmination of some great efforts by our president to get this deal done.

The Israeli people wanted the hostages out.

He got the hostages out.

I see nothing but dangers ahead because I think there are forces that are seeking to make sure Israel emerges from this episode with a political defeat.

I believe all the Gulf states, Turkey, Egypt, Macron,

Prime Minister of Canada and England, they're all going to Sham al-Sheikh to try to assure they stack the deck to make sure Israel is politically defeated and set the stage for the creation of a Palestinian state in Gaza to be followed by demands for Israel to withdraw from the West Bank and Jerusalem and set up an Israeli election choice next year.

where the Israeli electorate has to decide between peace with all these countries and doesn't quite understand that their definition of peace is very different from Israel's definition of peace.

And I see nothing but danger ahead in how this thing is going to play out politically for Israel.

I agree with you one thousand percent.

And as I say, I believe that this was brought on by the Israel first crowd in Tel Aviv, Levin in this crowd here in the United States that led Netanyahu to believe that he had ultimate power to just do what he was going to do.

And he finally hit President Trump's tripwire, came close to hitting the tripwire.

In Persia, he definitely hit the tripwire when he tried to kill the second negotiating team with Hamas in Qatar.

It was the attack on Qatar and not giving President Trump a heads up.

Knowing President Trump, you've got to go pretty far in the woods to hit his tripwire.

That tripwire was hit then, and everything's changed.

I agree with you about this is a two-state solution.

And I think it's going to start dawning on people in Israel pretty quickly that it is.