Would a Pardon Make Netanyahu More Amenable to Washington?

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00:00What's the idea, therefore, by getting him pardoned?

00:04Does that mean, were he to be pardoned, he'd be more amenable to Washington?

00:09Well, so, excellent question.

00:11And what I want to say is, while I have zero evidence for this,

00:14what I surmise in getting into Trump's head and the negotiator's head,

00:20is that he's trying to get Netanyahu pardoned on these longstanding corruption charges

00:25so that he can, you know, pressure Netanyahu to make concessions

00:30as they relate to Trump's quest for a Nobel Peace Prize, right?

00:36Concessions related to Gaza, to Palestine, to maybe doing what Saudi Arabia wants

00:43so he can, you know, get Saudi Arabia and the Abraham Accords,

00:46maybe even releasing the longstanding Palestinian prisoner, Barghouti, from prison.

00:53So this, although it's perhaps a reprehensible tactic,

00:59it could actually be effective in some ways.