Dr. Janice Stein
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And Ukrainians are leading the way, which is astonishing, just astonishing.
Ukrainians are leading the way now in making missiles that can mock out other missiles, defensive missiles at home far more cheaply too.
So that's what we will be seeing.
And so from a military perspective, you know, Israel had to, had no choice, ration the missiles, the defensive missiles it used, because there was no way to predict
the end of this war.
And in the last two weeks, Iranian missiles were getting through in ways they weren't in the early weeks.
So for them, too, this is a wake-up call.
Much more important, Peter,
The political relationship that they had, the one between Netanyahu and Trump, I think is not what it was when this war started.
Netanyahu told Donald Trump, this would be short, this would be fast.
Those stories that were leaked that we haven't talked about, about Ahmadinejad being the, I mean, they defy belief, frankly.
And there was some kind of, apparently there were conversations with him.
He hates Ahmadinejad, hates this group of people.
He made that clear when in his last days of presidency, and that's why he's been under house arrest, more or less.
So it's a credible storyline that they would think of doing this.
But what the benefit would have been, I mean, this was their Dulce Rodriguez that Donald Trump was hinting at in those early days.
I think their credibility, the Israeli credibility and the Mossad credibility, is so damaged with the Trump administration that it will be impossible for them to restore.
There's no question.
And this administration was the most friendly administration to that, to the Israelis.
That's imaginable.