Ilan Goldenberg

You can actually start to apply a real pressure and change behavior.

And so I think there's opportunities to – we're not solving this problem anytime soon.

But if you have a government that is at least –

more restrained, and also cares about the U.S.-Israel relationship because it's very clear now, and this is also another thing that started happening in Israel in the last couple weeks in particular.

You've seen it with some of the polling that's come out about Israel, and you've seen it with, you know, what's happened with this vote last week in the Senate.

There finally is a questioning that's coming to the center of Israeli politics of, like, what's happened here?

How is our relationship with the U.S.

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collapsing in such an extreme way.

And as that happens, I think you're going to have a government that is more centrist, not great, but is going to care more about that.

And that gives us more leverage and also creates a situation where they start to potentially at different moments say, well, yeah, maybe I'd

Parts of the party of our government would like to do this thing in the West Bank or in Gaza.

But we're actually worried about the Americans and their opinion.

And we care about, for example, what Democrats also think of us.

And so we're going to restrain ourselves more.

And you start to move not—we're not solving this problem immediately, but at least start to change the trajectory of this whole conflict.

Yeah.

I mean, we should be having an honest conversation about these things.

You know, I will say, I'm not saying that the Knesset's moving further to the left.

I think if you look at the Israeli public and you look at polling, we have elections in October.