Former Israeli official: Trump’s Gaza stance unpredictable

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00:00Yeah, and he's got to be careful, hasn't he?

00:01Prime Minister Netanyahu's got to keep President Trump on side,

00:04and President Trump really wants a result here, it would appear.

00:07And some guests have suggested his motivation is that Nobel Peace Prize.

00:11Whatever his motivation, he wants a result.

00:14And he doesn't want this delegation to go back to Israel

00:16and for all the progress that's been made to go in the dustbin.

00:21So, I mean, you know, he's going to hold Prime Minister Netanyahu to account on this, isn't he?

00:26I wouldn't jump to that conclusion.

00:28We have seen things that Trump wanted to have happen on the Ukraine-Russia front,

00:36for instance, that have gone absolutely nowhere.

00:40Other things have perhaps made more progress.

00:44We know that the new cycle, when Trump is in the White House,

00:48can be relentless in how it jumps from one thing to another.

00:51We know that the attention span isn't necessarily one that sticks with a given issue.

00:56And we know that the relationship between what is said and what is really going on

01:00doesn't necessarily have to be so closely aligned.

01:04So I think what you've hit on, Tom, is a key question,

01:09which is how much does Trump see this as something he wants to bring closure to?

01:17He was seminal in getting that ceasefire in January,

01:21but he also moved on and he allowed Israel to break the ceasefire,

01:26to impose an even worse starvation siege and for things to get so much worse again.