Matt Frei

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718 appearances 13 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 17 Aug

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The Claire Byrne Show · Peace Plan rejected by Israel for Gaza · 10 Aug 2026 podcast

You do deals, you offer people things, they accept them, they decide to form a pact with you, and you have a government.

And the right has, the far right, I think we should call them what they are, have learned over recent years that they can call a very high price, even if it means that the Israeli

Israeli Prime Minister has to go against supposedly his best friend Donald Trump in the White House.

Trump will be very upset by this, as he has been before, and he may well pick up the phone and scream expletives and f and drop some F-bombs at um at Netanyahu, but it may not make ultimately much of a difference.

The problem for Trump, of course, is that you know he always starts a negotiation.

by boasting about how incredible it's going to be, which is exactly the wrong thing to do.

And then of course you you know, you you roll back from that maximalist boast to the rather more grim reality.

Imagine if in the Good Friday Agreement George Mitchell had said, This is gonna be the best deal ever.

You know, it's gonna be the most amazing thing we've ever had, you know, as the negotiations began.

I mean, people just don't take you seriously.

And but it should also be said that Hamas are playing a slightly more subtle game here.

They're saying, Oh, we still stick with this deal.

We like this deal.

Uh and of course it's the only thing that that they've got to go on.

Um no.

The Israelis can use this excuse about complete disarmament and just never have a deal.

I mean, it could just go on and on and on when he says every single weapon has to be uh disarmed.

Um does that include kitchen knives and screwdrivers?

I mean it you know, nothing is too absurd.

Well, I think b a bit of both, to be honest.

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