16: Peter Berkowitz Analyzes Precarious Gaza Ceasefire and Deep Internal Political Tensions in Israel Peter Berkowitz with John Batchelor Peter Berkowitz stated the Gaza ceasefire is precarious and phase one is incomplete until all deceased hostages' remains
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 23 October 2025
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| 0:24.0 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Baxter. Peter Berkowitz is here of the Hoover |
| 0:27.7 | Institution, writing for real clear politics, a man who's widely traveled in the region of the Middle |
| 0:32.1 | East and extremely knowledgeable of what happens in the intellectual circles of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. |
| 0:41.2 | And therefore, it's important to emphasize that wherever we're going, |
| 0:45.5 | it's the politics that are going to lead this, not the gunman, not the IDF, but the politics. |
| 0:52.1 | And Peter, that's unknown to me. |
| 0:54.1 | Where is Israel going politically? They've |
| 0:56.4 | been battling over Netanyahu's extended Rana's PM for years. Is there something behind that, |
| 1:03.6 | or is it just dissent that now and again rises up with demonstrations in the streets? I can't, |
| 1:09.2 | I can't tell. |
| 1:17.1 | Unfortunately, the tears in Israel's society are sharp. |
| 1:23.1 | The tensions, the enmities run very deep. |
| 1:26.7 | One example just from today in Israel. A majority, it was, or I should say a plurality, voted today to extend Israeli sovereignty to Judean Samaria, to the West Bank. |
| 1:39.3 | This was embarrassing to Netanyahu, not necessarily because he's opposed, but because Vice President |
| 1:45.2 | Vance was in town. And President Trump only a few weeks ago made a public announcement that |
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