If you can't win this war.

Nittiniao doesn't have to solve the problem.

He just has to convey convincingly to the public that he can solve the problem.

And he has spent seven months convincing the Israeli public

that he can't, that he won't, that Bizalas

Motrich and Itamer-Bengver have a veto over him and that the American administration has veto over him. It is one p.m. on Sunday May 19th here in New York City. It is 8 o'clock

p.m. in Israel on Sunday, May 19th as Israelis wind down their day.

I am pleased to welcome back to this podcast for one of our regular but recently irregular but God willing re-regular

our check-ins.

Haviv Rhetagor, Haviv, good to see you.

Hey Dan, it's good to be regular again.

That means two things, right?

I remember old commercials.

So, Haviv, there's a lot for us to discuss.

There's been a lot of news out of Israel on the political front, a lot of political

maneuvering that obviously has implications for the war and for wartime policy and for the survival of this government

and for the survival or cohesiveness of the war cabinet and decision-making, with a lot of different characters involved.

We had Nadeva Yol on late last week where he gave us a backgrounder on Jov Galant, given the move he had made, and who he is.

And then, since then, as Israelis came out of Shabbat on Saturday night,

their time, another Israeli leader in the war cabinet made a public

statement Benny Gons seeming to want to compete more with Galant than with Bibi

which was interesting. He's made statements in the past. He made a statement two

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