Kurt Mills

There's all kinds of Russian, Chinese, and even, yeah, Iranian and Lebanese money coming in there.

And it could be a real risk for us.

There's a way to do this.

Be moderate.

Be pragmatic.

You know, slowly move the Maduro people towards a more reasonable accommodation with the United States and avoid bloodshed.

Yeah, I remember there's a cover piece a year or two ago in the Claremont Review of Books, my friends over there, that it was by Andrew Roberts, the great sort of Churchill stenographer, who called Netanyahu the Churchill of the Middle East.

He meant it as a compliment.

I think it's more of an accurate statement of fact.

which is that Netanyahu, while the towering figure of a quarter century of Israeli politics, is also an invincibly precarious one.

And if there is no war, there could be no power for Netanyahu.

We don't know.

His position is certainly stronger, and he was definitely underrated.

after the October 7th attacks.

But an election is really dicey.

And you mentioned the Churchill situation.

He lost to a rival and not quite as towering, but still a significant figure in British politics, Clement Attlee, who had been the leader of the opposition before the war and been leader of the Labour Party, you know, into the 30s.

Naftali Bennett, Netanyahu's protege turned rival, has already been prime minister, and he could easily sell himself as a safer, conservative pair of hands that will just turn down the temperature a little bit for a couple of years in Israel.

I'm sure the White House and Trump will have problems with Netanyahu, and I think Americans will have problems with Bennett.

And I think there's reason to be concerned about Bennett.