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00:00Right. I mean, so a clear message being sent to Prime Minister Netanyahu by Washington.
00:05I mean, how's the message being received, do you think?
00:08I mean, are you getting the sense perhaps there's some panic starting to set in?
00:13I think that there is a real deep surprise.
00:17I mean, it's beyond think. I'm talking to a lot of people in government.
00:20And what I hear is that they thought that they had Trump within their sphere of influence.
00:27That Trump is, I don't want to sound too crude, but if he's in their pocket, he's under their control, they could manipulate him.
00:34But guess what? You know, Trump will not be manipulated by anybody.
00:38And that kind of signaling that came from the Israeli side may have even triggered some of the backlash that we're seeing from Washington.
00:46Now, of course, I hope that eventually Israel and the United States will be aligned, that Israel will come along,
00:52because there are tremendous opportunities for Israeli national security right now in the region.
00:58Normalization with Saudi, you know, opening, stabilizing the situation in Syria,
01:03having a permanent border with Lebanon, which is really a tangible goal that the Trump administration can actually push forward.
01:11So we're seeing all these opportunities, and I hope, I hope that the Israeli government will eventually come along and capture the moment.