Ronen Bergman

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335 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 24 Jun

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The Daily · How the Iran Deal Is Testing the U.S.-Israel Alliance · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

You can't just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have.

Iran has the full control over what Hezbollah is doing.

I suspect that the drones were sent as part of the Iranian tactics to improve their position in the negotiation because from their point of view, it's a win-win.

If Netanyahu reacts or the IDF to react, then he gets himself into another confrontation with Trump.

If he doesn't, then he gets into a confrontation with his own constituency at home, his base, because they say, you're not reacting to what Hezbollah is doing.

Yes.

And more, Iran, I think, believes it can control the level of the fire without jeopardizing the deal, but leading to further friction between Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump.

And at the end, to an anger of the president that would lead to forcing Israel not just to a ceasefire, but to a total withdrawal from Lebanon.

Yeah, I think that since Trump became president again, Netanyahu showed high sensitivity not to cross that line, not to force Trump to outcast him publicly.

And when he felt that Trump is just about to explode, he said, okay, I obey.

But something is different now.

Netanyahu maybe has now a different calculus.

The calculus is the coming elections.

And he believes that if he is just obeying Trump, he will come up with something very, very weak who cannot stand up to an American president and is trying to say to his constituency, I am not obeying President Trump when it comes to national security.

And this road might lead to further friction between them.

Prime Minister Netanyahu, I think, is deliberating between obeying Trump or going against him and supporting a much stronger war in Lebanon.

I don't think that he already made a call, but his call will not just impact the relationship between him and Trump.

It will also impact the deal between the U.S.

and Iran.

I don't think that Netanyahu would like to go down this road.

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