John Kiriakou

When we were kids, we had a terrible relationship with China.

And Richard Nixon was the most anti-China person that could possibly have been elected president.

Yet it was Nixon that went to China and made peace with the Chinese and opened diplomatic relations.

And call me crazy, but I think that if there's going to be peace with Iran, Donald Trump's going to make that peace with Iran.

It may not be in the form of a trip to Tehran.

but I could see a trip to Riyadh and have a meeting brokered by Mohammed bin Salman, and maybe we can come to some sort of an agreement on issue number one or issue number two.

And we're seeing it, whether people want to admit it or not.

That's part of the problem because of narratives.

That's it.

You know, peace between India and Pakistan doesn't fit in the Democratic Party's narrative that Donald Trump is a warmonger.

He's not a warmonger.

Ask, you know, the Africans that he's weighed in for.

And we have peace in sub-Saharan Africa now.

Or this agreement today between Hamas and the Israelis.

You know, I think this is the first of several new developments that's going to lead to the end of this conflict.

Eventually, Netanyahu has a vested interest in making sure that this war lasts as long as possible, because remember, he's still under indictment for corruption.

Also, one thing that most Americans don't understand is the Israeli political system is such that it is literally impossible for any party to win a working majority in the Knesset.

There are just too many parties and too many individual interests.

So you've got a dozen parties represented.

Benjamin Netanyahu has never won more than 27% of the vote.