Capehart: No U.S. President That Dealt with Netanyahu During His Time as Leader Had Any Sway Over Him

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CAPEHART: “It doesn’t seem like President Trump has any Sway. Actually, you could say that pretty much no president of the United States that Prime Minister Netanyahu has dealt with during his time as leader of Israel has had any Sway over him. Maybe President Trump comes a little closer, but, as we have seen, Prime Minister Netanyahu isn’t listening to the president. And the big problem here — and this is where it would be great for American leadership to be a part of the process — Prime Minister Netanyahu has not articulated a day-after strategy since the justified reaction to October 7. We don’t know — I mean, I think David ticked through a lot of things that — a lot of questions that sort of hang out there and that there aren’t real answers to. And, last week, I interviewed former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert about, well, who would the Israelis negotiate with in order to bring about some sort of resolution to Gaza? And he said, basically, in an ideal world, that would be the Palestinian Authority. But in a tweet today, Prime Minister Netanyahu said that, ‘No, it’s not going to — we’re not going to be talking to Hamas. We’re not going to be talking to the Palestinian Authority.’ So, to amplify David’s point, who — what’s going to happen to the Palestinians? What is Prime Minister Netanyahu’s plan for the day after? What is going to really happen in Gaza? I don’t know if he even knows.”

(via RealClearPolitics)