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🗓️ 27 July 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's talk about Netanyahu's trip to Washington. |
0:05.4 | We had a speech to Congress. |
0:07.0 | We had a meeting with Trump. |
0:08.9 | We had a meeting with Biden. |
0:10.3 | We had a meeting with Kamala Harris. |
0:12.6 | What are your thoughts? |
0:14.7 | Well, my own thoughts are very straightforward. |
0:17.1 | I think Netanyahu is now in the ascendant. |
0:19.9 | He's seen off Biden. Biden was attempting to, |
0:25.1 | the Biden administration was at one point clearly attempting to try to get Netanyahu to step down. |
0:34.2 | They were trying to push him towards a ceasefire. They left it far too late, far too long. |
0:40.7 | They gave Netanyahu a blank check back in October. Netanyahu cashed it for all it was worth, |
0:48.5 | and he's now come out the conclusive winner. And I think you saw that, the dynamics of that, |
0:53.6 | in the meeting between Netanyahu and Biden himself. |
0:57.4 | Netanyahu seemed full of confidence. And I thought that he showed in Congress what a powerful |
1:06.8 | and skillful political operator he continues to be. He is able to mobilize an enormous amount of |
1:15.6 | support in Congress. And I think for the moment at least, Netanyahu is clearly in control. He's seen |
1:24.0 | off the challenge from the Biden administration. He's going to continue his war in Gaza, |
1:28.5 | and he's now thinking clearly about the next war against Lebanon. And he's even floating ideas |
1:37.6 | about creating a NATO-type system in the Middle East, which I suspect he's now going to try to sell to the incoming Trump |
1:47.7 | administration, or what he expects to be, the incoming Trump administration. So, you know, |
1:53.9 | clearly Netanyahu and the ascendant, feeling that the situation has, you know, he's got the initiative now and he's trying to shape |
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