Former US ambassador: Netanyahu wants war to continue

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00:00First of all, why does Israel just want a 60-day ceasefire and not a permanent one?

00:06Thank you, Leanne. Great to be with you. It's analogous to Russia wanting to keep on fighting

00:10in Ukraine. Netanyahu thinks that Israel is winning, meaning destroying Hamas step by step.

00:17And he has, you know, these extreme rightists in his coalition, Ben Kavir and Smotrich,

00:23and they are insisting on fighting and I think ethnically cleansing both Gaza and the West

00:29Bank. So, you know, to hold his political coalition together, he feels he has to keep on fighting.