All right, Alexander, we have the news that the War Cabinet, Netanyahu's War Cabinet

in Israel, has collapsed.

It's been disbanded.

I don't think this should be shocking to anybody given Gantz's withdrawal from the War Cabinet.

And what are your thoughts on this announcement?

Well, I think the first and most important thing to say is that he doesn't mean

the Netanyahu ceases to be Prime Minister of Israel.

It merely means that he has returned to the format of the government he had before the Hamas

attack on the 7th of October.

Now that government, the pre-7th October government was more hardline in some respects than the war cabinet government, which brought in

parties which were seen as being in some ways, and I stress in some ways, rather more moderate

and American friendly than the coalition that Netanyahu headed before the 7th of October

and the coalition, which is the same coalition that Netanyahu heads now. What it means is that

within the current Israeli government, the influence of the very strong hardliners, the extreme hardliners,

people like Smotrich and Benkvir has increased.

They can bring Netanyahu down more easily than they could a week ago.

And that is going to lead, I think, to a toughening of the Israeli position.

And we already see that Netanyahu is making public statements,

that he's unhappy about the fact that the Israeli army has apparently

operating some kind of a pause in Gaza in the Battle of Rafa.

We're going to see a tougher line being taken by the Israeli government.

And this is a direct product, or so it seems to me,

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