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At the end of the day, the big picture is this. Israel doesn't know how to solve the Hezbollah problem right now in Lebanon. It doesn't know how to do that. And what's really happening is that Iran has managed to use Lebanon as part of these negotiations with the United States. So it's absolutely on the record that the negotiations with Iran as to the agreement on nuclear issues, on Ramos, are connected to what Israel is doing in Lebanon.

And that is not something that Israel wanted to begin with.

When Hezbollah started firing at Israel in order to protect Iran, it caused a

heavy damage for the image of Netanyahu, because now, without the Lebanon front marked as

done deal, all of a sudden question arises, is this war ever going to end? Voters might say,

if you have failed to actually bring security

after two and a half years or almost three years

and bearing in mind, of course, October 7th,

why would we elect you? It's 7 a.m. on Wednesday, June 3rd here in New York City.

It's 2 p.m. on Wednesday, June 3rd in Israel.

There are two versions of what happened on Monday as it relates to the war in Lebanon.

There's a version that looks like progress.

Donald Trump announced a ceasefire.

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