What Netanyahu and Israel want out of the war with Iran
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🗓️ 9 June 2026
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Summary
In comparison, the Israeli public is pressing for military defeat of Iran and its allies, such as the militia Hezbollah in Lebanon. And Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing a parliamentary election this fall which could unseat him from power.
So the war that Trump and Netanyahu launched together now sees the two leaders at odds on its potential end.
Daniel Shapiro, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, explains the political calculus for Netanyahu right now.
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| 0:00.0 | It's considered this where every day we go deep on one big news story. |
| 0:06.0 | Today, what Israel wants out of the war with Iran. |
| 0:10.0 | Now they've called it quits, so they're going to just leave each other alone for another week or something. |
| 0:17.0 | As he was about to get onto a plane early Tuesday morning, President Trump said that Israel and Iran had both agreed, thanks to his pressure, to stop attacking each other. |
| 0:27.4 | And he said a deal to end the war was maybe only two or three days away. |
| 0:32.2 | We're in the final throes of what will be a very, very good deal. |
| 0:36.7 | There is no evidence that a deal is close, and in fact, hours later, Israel's military struck sites across southern Lebanon, |
| 0:45.2 | where it has been fighting the Iran-backed militia, Hezbollah. |
| 0:49.2 | One of Iran's demands in a peace deal is the end of hostilities between Israel and Hasbalah. |
| 0:55.2 | Over the weekend, Israel fired missiles at Iran because Iran fired missiles at Israel, because Israel |
| 1:01.3 | had fired at Hasbullah targets near Beirut, because Hezbollah had fired on northern Israel. |
| 1:06.5 | You get the picture. |
| 1:07.6 | That is Israel's prime minister, adain not tam. |
| 1:11.6 | That is Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, |
| 1:14.6 | speaking Monday in a video statement and saying, |
| 1:17.6 | our battle against Iran and Hezbollah is still not finished. |
| 1:21.6 | In the last 24 hours, they tried to impose a new equation upon us, |
| 1:26.6 | and it is an equation I find intolerable |
| 1:30.2 | and unacceptable. Consider this. Trump and Netanyahu started the war with Iran together. Today, |
| 1:39.3 | Trump wants a speedy end to that war. Netanyahu does not appear to agree. |
| 1:48.0 | From NPR, I'm Mary Louise Kelly. |
| 1:59.6 | It's considered this from NPR. |
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