Tommy Vietor

Like, look, it's been two years, right?

Both sides were exhausted by two years of war.

But I also think Biden missed a big opportunity when the Israelis killed Yaga Sinwar, the mastermind of the October 7th attacks.

That was about a year ago.

You know, that could have been a good window to try to push to end the war.

Trump also missed an opportunity, right?

I mean, he brokered that ceasefire in January.

The Israelis and Palestinians were supposed to negotiate phase two of that ceasefire, which would lead to a permanent end of the war during, you know, that the first ceasefire that they had brokered and they just never did it.

The issue of Netanyahu's political problems was front and center today.

Presumably now that the fighting is over, the pressure could start rising again on him, on his corruption trials, on his leadership and the push for elections.

Though Trump had a helpful idea for how to handle those corruption charges.

Let's listen.

So cigars and champagne, that's a reference to Case 1000, which is one of the several corruption cases against Netanyahu.

In that case, he and his wife are accused of taking like hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cigars and champagne from donors, et cetera, friends in exchange for political favors.

So love it.

Like the conventional wisdom shared by yours truly as well was that Netanyahu wouldn't take this deal because he would lose the right flank of his governing coalition.

They would then pull out of the government.

And for Netanyahu, that would mean losing power and also the risk of prosecution.

But he did take the deal, which leads you to wonder why and about his political standing.

I noticed Netanyahu was booed when Steve Witkoff mentioned his name during a speech at Hostages Square over the weekend.