Jeffrey Goldberg

My guess, and again, stipulating that nobody knows nothing because the future hasn't happened yet.

You know more than most, but go ahead.

My guess is that Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, ends somewhat—this ends in a way that leaves him at least somewhat dissatisfied.

He thought that the president and believes that the president of the United States will execute a war plan that will lead to regime change, that will help the Iranian people rise up.

We know that they want to rise up.

The vast majority don't like their government.

And that all of these things would trigger an uprising that would at least—

It at best, maybe not from the Israeli perspective, but from the American perspective and in a democratic Iran.

Right.

Which is a nice hope and a dream.

Obviously, we all want that.

Or at the very least, a state that is collapsed on itself and poses no threat externally, including and especially to Israel, but also to Israel's Arab allies in in the Gulf.

If I'm sitting in Jerusalem looking at the president's statements, I'm asking myself, what is he going to do next?

If he's looking at the midterms, if he's looking at his own polling numbers, if he's looking at the price of gas, he can get bored.

He can realize that this is too tough to go on, and he will leave the Israelis not holding the bag exactly.

The Israelis and the Arabs, by the way, because the Arabs are signaling to Trump, hey,

This was a war of choice.

Now it's a war of necessity.

So don't leave us in the lurch again.

I don't think he'll care very much what they say on that.