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James Landale Dennis Ross, a former US Middle East envoy, tells BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in a "difficult position" when it comes to agreeing any potential ceasefire deal.
Diplomatic correspondent Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir have both said they would quit the government over the terms Israel was prepared to put on the table, Ross says, adding it is an "open question" as to whether they are bluffing.
In diplomatic terms, the most interesting question now is what But if the terms Hamas says it will accept are close to what Netanyahu has already agreed to present, Ross says it "won't be so easy for him to turn it down", adding that if Netanyahu was to do so, there is a "high risk" that other figures in the government could leave.
the Americans say and do. "That doesn't bring the government down the way Smotrich and Ben-Gvir would, but it may set in motion a set of events in Israel that I think could put the government at risk," he says.
Because overnight their briefers have been very, very "At a certain point, he needs to choose Biden over Ben-Gvir, he needs to choose the hostages over Smotrich".
cautious, refusing to say anything substantive about the Hamas announcement,
simply saying that a deal is achievable and that they oppose, and they continue
to oppose, any military operation in Rafah.
But on the substance they have remained remarkably quiet.
And
that is because if the Americans at any stage publicly say ‘this is what Israel
must accept’, then at that point the pressure on the Israeli government is
huge.
But we’re not at that point yet, because the Americans have yet
to say what is their substantive view on what Hamas has agreed to.
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