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Dennis is Netanyahu done or is there a chance we could see him back in the top job?

I think that it's premature to write his political obituary.

The more he tries to explode this current government, the more I think it makes him look more

political and less like a leader.

It makes the current government and invent it look like they're trying to manage for the country.

When Hamas built this vast network of tunnels, they used an enormous amount of cement, steel, iron,

electrical wiring and wood. Gaza is an impoverished place. All this material that was used were

building this vast underground tunnel network. It could have been used for construction and

economic progress above ground, but that's not Hamas' priority.

Because Netanyahu is now the head of the opposition and has stated he wants to bring down

this government as soon as possible, just as he created a kind of a glue for this group

while he was in power, so long as he's the focal point of the opposition and trying to bring him down,

he creates a glue for them while they're in power.

Ambassador Dennis Ross is a counselor and distinguished fellow at the Washington Institute for

Near East Policy. He is one of our nation's leading experts on the Middle East

and most experienced practitioners of policy toward the region, having worked at the highest levels

of the U.S. government for multiple presidents of both parties. He joins us today to talk about

Israeli politics, the latest round of fighting between Israel's and Palestinians, as well as the

Biden administration's approach to Iran. We'll be right back with that discussion after a word from

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