Kurt Mills

and Iran.

And Turkey repeatedly, both on and off the record, will assail the Iranians for use of proxies in the region.

But what they don't want, what they don't want is a all-out U.S.-Israeli regime change war in the region.

Number one, they don't want to deal with the flow of refugees.

There's been tons of refugees that Turkey has handled from the Syria war.

But number two, they know that they'll be next on the hit list for Israel if Israelis are able to convince the Americans to get involved.

Frankly, I have heard when Netanyahu comes to Washington, half the time he talks about Turkey as much as he talks about Iran.

No, I think you're quite right to pick up on this business element as the potential actual wedge between the U.S.

and the Israelis at this point.

The fact is, war will be bad for the kind of business, the sort of investment in building infrastructure in the region that both the administration wants to get involved in and also Trump's own family.

These investments in the Gulf

won't be worth anything if they're basically target practice for Iranian missiles.

And so I think this is while, you know, Trump has gone pretty far with Netanyahu.

This is actually a potential point of departure between their visions because this is not the Netanyahu vision.

The Netanyahu vision is to atomize and to chop up

the Arab and Muslim worlds.

And he views that as basically mowing the lawn and ensuring Israeli security.

I'm not so sure that actually ensures Israeli security, but that's his vision for his country since the 90s.

And that is pretty, pretty at loggerheads with a expanding financialized Arab world

where Trump and his family can build hotels and Kushner can build hedge funds based in Riyadh.