Dr. Janice Stein

But how easy is it?

Some Hezbollah fighter is going to fire off two rounds?

That's going to constitute an attack?

Yeah.

So Donald Trump would have to pull out all the stops here to say to Netanyahu, nothing, nothing, nothing for 30, 60 days while these negotiations are going on.

Good luck, good luck, and good luck because here's the law, too.

Again, think about the dynamics.

Every reason to disrupt this right now.

You know, we ask why would Israelis observe this, but why would they too?

yes i think it will be and why do i think it will be peter let you know when it became apparent

We've always described Donald Trump as a transactional president.

He doesn't have friends.

He does business deals.

And, you know, Canadians have felt that more than anybody else since he returned to the presidency.

When it became obvious that the Mossad prediction was wrong, this government was not going to crumble, there was going to be no regime change, that was it.

Frankly, Israel Netanyahu was cut out of most of these conversations.

He had to go, and Israel does have friends in the Gulf, he had to go to his friends in the Gulf for updates about what was happening in real time.

The sense that he was on the other end of the phone, gone, cut out completely for the last four to five weeks.

I think that's what this relationship will look like for the rest of the Trump presidency.

One last comment, Peter.