Robbie Bernstein

The only reason it sounds like we actually got potential here is that Donald Trump is waving the white flag and actually offering enough concessions where Donald Trump can walk away with the talking point of, hey, they're never going nuclear and then never really address the fact that he ended up with a more powerful Iran and in a significantly worse place than where the JCPOA actually was.

Now, it appears to me that when he made the Abraham Accords statement, he's throwing a monkey wrench into this and realizing, oh, I can't actually do this, so I'm going to sabotage my own deal.

I do want to give Trump a little bit of credit, though, and just float a possibility.

I don't think that this is true, but I want to float a possibility here that came across my head.

It sometimes kind of seems like Donald Trump is looking to checkmate Netanyahu on claims that Israel is not safe and that's why they have to be the aggressor.

And what happened the first time when Donald Trump said did the nuclear strikes on Iran was he turned around and said totally obliterated, which for about a six month period forced Netanyahu to get Trump's back because he didn't want to call Trump a liar on television right afterwards.

And so for a little while that had to seep to the sidelines.

um the big monkey wrench in this deal is that uh israel has to be done with lebanon uh and of course they left a little bit of wiggle room in there as long as hezbollah behaves then israel will not respond uh but it does somewhat feel with the abraham accords play

I, my read is it's a disingenuous monkey wrench and that he's looking to blow up his own deal.

But I also think that there might be a possibility of trying to kind of pin Netanyahu down to being like, Hey, quit pretending like you guys are the victims here.

I've worked out an environment where you guys are completely safe.

Nobody's saying that you don't have a right to exist.

So knock it off.

And I wonder if there's a little bit of room in there in the Abraham Accords to try and make that play and actually restrain Israel, but in a way that appears to be a victory.

Well, just to give the two sides of that.

And once again, I agree.

I think it's a monkey wrench.

The Abraham Accords specifically for the other countries that didn't sign on before.

It's a much harder ask after what's taking place in Gaza.

And that completely lets Israel off the hook for everything that it's done and kind of further legitimizes them.