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The far right in Netanyahu's government is extremely unhappy, Dan, with this plan.

Any armed Palestinian force attached to the Palestinian Authority, might I remind us all the expressions about no Hamas and no Abbas,

meaning Abu Mazen?

Well, of course, right now in Gaza, what we have, just practically speaking, we have Hamas,

and we're going to have a bus.

But you know, this conversation was almost impossible to imagine on October 8, 23, October 9.

Just thinking that Netanyahu would run on the basis of, I'll do way better in terms of security than my opponents following 1,200 victims in six hours, it's something unheard of.

I'm not sure Gaza is the raison d'etre of Netanyahu's campaign.

I think he would like to actually zoom out to the bigger picture, to say, listen, it's not Gaza, it's the.30 p.m. on Wednesday, January 21st here in New York City. It's 9.30 p.m. on Wednesday, January 21st in Israel, as Israelis wind down their day.

Today, Wednesday, Prime Minister Netanyahu accepted President Trump's invitation to join the

Board of Peace, a supervisory body for Gaza's post-war development. Also announcing their

decision to join the board on Wednesday are eight Muslim countries,

including Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, and Pakistan.

European leaders are still considering their position regarding the Board of Peace,

which has already named former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S. Secretary of State,

Marco Rubio, as senior executives. France has indicated it plans to

decline the invitation. Assigning ceremony is scheduled to be held on Thursday at 10.30 a.m. on the

sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, as it seeks to establish a nascent international

oversight body to address conflict resolution around the globe,

in an apparent effort to use the Board of Peace to, in some way, supplant functions of the United Nations.

On Tuesday, during a White House press conference, President Trump said that U.S. intelligence might know

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