00:00One of the things we've heard from the Israeli side is that one official who's accompanying Netanyahu to Washington
00:05says that Israel's getting 80 to 90 percent of what it wants.
00:11I mean, clearly there's a margin that they're not getting,
00:15but does that sound significant enough for some meaningful progress to come out of these talks?
00:20The important thing with any agreement that is reached is that both sides are able to turn to their respective publics
00:29and say, this is a good deal for us.
00:32So if the Israelis were telling you we're only getting 42 percent of what we want,
00:37you could be pretty sure that this wasn't going to turn into a deal.
00:40So I think we can we can kind of park the spin.
00:45What is significant here is this creation of an expectation.
00:52Now, that can go in one of two directions.
00:56One is that the Israelis are saying, look, we were getting what we wanted.
01:01This was about to happen. And the other side collapsed it.
01:03That's where we've been for an awfully long time.
01:06Israel's refusal to to bring this to an end.
01:09But their success in having the U.S.
01:13administration align with their talking point that the other side is to blame.
01:19We could yet be back in that scenario.
01:21The other scenario is you actually get an agreement where there's enough that works for each of the parties to carry this forward.
01:30I think we are still going to have a major fault line over whether this is interpreted as a temporary ceasefire or the on-ramp to a definitive end to what has gone on militarily in Israel's military assault.
01:50Most of that will depend on the Trump administration.
01:56Netanyahu will still want to be able to navigate between those options, between bringing this to an end, as he did previously in March, because he will look at his coalition politics.
