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He has a personal interest in that because he's probably going to be facing corruption charges as soon as he's out of a war situation and he's going to lose office.
And so he has every incentive to keep fighting as long as possible.
And I don't think there would have been a ceasefire if Netanyahu had a decision-making role in that.
And I think what we've seen is they are still bombing Lebanon right now, but that at least they did agree, okay, we're going to stop bombing Iran.
And they stopped doing that.
So they are going along with what Trump is asking them to do.
And I don't know how you could be in a joint war with someone like Israel without โ
having a clear chain of command and having clear coordination because, you know, it would be chaos if Netanyahu was going to disobey what Trump wanted or what the U.S.
told him, hey, we're doing this.
You need to get in line and do the same thing.
And I think Netanyahu certainly knows that we could pull out of that alliance at any time if he pissed Trump off.
And I don't think it's the other way around.
So, you know, they're very dependent on us.
And I think
Certainly we are strong allies and you can have whatever opinion you want about that.
I mean, you know, I don't want to be
you know, doing what Israel wants us to do and having that guide our foreign policy.
But I do think it's a broader picture than that.
It's not just about Israel.
It's not just about Iran.