‘Repositioning’: Israeli govt shifts stance on Palestinian Authority

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00:00A number of takeaways. Because the Israeli government has been weakened somewhat,

00:06the Netanyahu's hard-right coalition has been weakened by the loss of Minister Ben-Gvir and

00:11his party, as you just mentioned. What we heard was a little bit of repositioning

00:17by Foreign Minister Gidon Sar, who belongs to the Prime Minister's own party. It was interesting for

00:24him to say that he considers the Palestinian Authority as much a terror group as Hamas in

00:32Gaza. That is, in fact, a position that has really tripped up the Israeli government very badly.

00:38By refusing to accept the authority, the internationally recognized authority,

00:43of this Palestinian government, Netanyahu now finds himself in a situation in which you have

00:50Hamas gangs celebrating and retaking power today in Gaza, a definite symbol of failure for this

00:58government, versus a new Palestinian internationally backed force that could have been entering.

01:04We should expect this to be an ongoing issue going forward, especially if Israel does move.

01:10Israel and Hamas do move forward towards the second phase, sorry, of these attacks.

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