Politically speaking, for him, this is a celebration. This is a bump in the polls.

He's in a very serious condition.

Some would say, to an extent terminal, I would not say this about Netanyahu because he's such a survivor in Israeli politics

but more than 60% of the Israelis don't want to see him serve as a prime minister

and it's a split screen on one side of the screen we're retrieving bodies of

caretaker of the kindergarten of Neurosa bringing her body back and what a

difference it is between that Israel is still fighting to retrieve bodies of its

citizens from October 7 and what we saw which was a tremendous show of advocacy for Israel and the best kind of

orator that we could have for the American audience and many Israelis were saying

you know that's bollocks. It is 8 o'clock p.m. on Wednesday July 24th here in New York City and in Washington

D.C. where my guest is tonight. It is 3 o'clock AM in the

middle of the night on Thursday July 25th in Israel. I'm joined now by Nadeva Yel from Idiut, who is in Washington traveling with

Prime Minister Netanyahu covering the Prime Minister's visit this entire week,

this extremely important visit.

Nadev, lots to unpack. Thanks for being here.

Thank you for having me again.

Nadev, when we spoke before this trip, not when we spoke on the podcast, but we, when we were talking

or anticipating Prime Minister Netanyahu's address before Congress that occurred today that just

wrapped up a few hours ago, you had conveyed that at least

the chatter in the Israeli press was that this was a speech as much about bolstering the Prime Minister's political position, popularity or lack of popularity

in Israel than anything else.

It was a speech to an international audience, it was a speech to an American audience, that was really focused

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