Trita Parsi

Even with those resources, this is going to take a very long time.

And by the way, keep in mind that a couple of weeks is also exactly what they said about Iraq, and it ended up being a decade.

Well, as you pointed out, this is exactly what we've seen in the past.

Whenever there is any chance of a deal, he goes out and he puts out impossible conditions

in order to signal clearly that he will attack the deal if it is made that meets short of these conditions, which it obviously will.

These are impossible conditions to reach.

These are poison pills that he puts in there in order to sabotage diplomacy.

Now, here's where, from my standpoint, there's a positive.

For about a month, he kept a very low profile.

Things were going his way.

There was no need for him to be out there saying these things.

Then things changed.

He came back to Washington, D.C.

He apparently did not have a good deal, a good meeting with Trump.

And now he's out there giving this commentary again, which I think should be interpreted as a sign that he's nervous, that he's not in the room, and that he's trying to influence it from the outside.

Whereas before, just a couple of weeks ago, he felt confident enough that he did not feel the need to influence it from the outside.

That does not mean that chances for a deal necessarily are great or that things will work out.

But it does mean, I think, that the type of control that Netanyahu felt that he had up until a week ago is no longer there.

And he's back into his old playbook of trying to salvage this from the outside.

Yes.