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00:00Let's bring in Noga Tarapovsky, our Jerusalem correspondent, joining us live.
00:04Noga, good evening to you.
00:06What is the latest you can tell us about the truce?
00:08Well, it's an interesting situation here in Israel tonight, because on the one hand, the
00:16Israeli population very badly wants an end to this war.
00:20All polls have shown this, daily protests show this.
00:25On the other hand, this agreement, which Netanyahu has planned to bring to his cabinet tomorrow
00:31afternoon, seems to be kind of blowing up in his hands.
00:36The reason is his loss of credibility in recent months.
00:41Netanyahu has yet to share any of this agreement with his own ministers.
00:46Certainly, he hasn't said a word to the Israeli public.
00:49He hasn't offered a press conference in more than three months.
00:52And so you have a situation in which Israelis feel and fear that they're being sold a bill
00:57of goods.
00:59Several of his own ministers from his own party have already said that if this agreement,
01:05when they see it tomorrow, turns out to be a revamped version of UN Resolution 1701 from
01:112006, they will not vote for it.
01:16And the people, the more or less 80,000 Israelis and their mayors and their community heads
01:23who have been evacuated from their houses in the north for 14 months now, are saying
01:29a 60-day deal doesn't offer them anything.
01:33No buffer zone in Lebanon doesn't protect them, and they're not going back.
01:38And the victory Netanyahu really needed in hand was to be able to say, I am allowing
01:45you to go back home.
01:46Israel is now safe again.
01:48And he's not able to say it.
01:49So it's really unclear at this point how it will develop tomorrow and how much Netanyahu
01:56will emerge even more weakened by this new deal.
02:00You mentioned the doubts over his credibility.
02:02I mean, clearly the fact that he's now a wanted man, subject of an international arrest warrant
02:07from the International Criminal Court, is part of that feeling.
02:12Absolutely, absolutely.
02:13And that also has yet to be explained to Israelis who don't really understand what happened,
02:18don't understand entirely the significance of this arrest warrant against their prime
02:23minister, and don't understand what it means for their country completely.
02:28But also within Israel, Netanyahu today once again requested a delay in his own testimony
02:36in his corruption trial, which has been underway since 2020.
02:41He's already been denied a delay, but he's asked for one again.
02:45His party today presented to parliament a simply flagrantly illegal law which would
02:52protect retroactively his advisor who is accused of treason during wartime, of in fact stealing
03:01secret documents from military intelligence and tampering with them before implanting
03:07them in foreign media.
03:08So Netanyahu's credibility is at a low.
03:10What has been surprising to see, even for those of us who observe him closely, is that
03:15even among members of his own cabinet, including those who are among the closest to him from
03:21his own party, we've heard from several tonight who are not at all sure they're going to vote
03:27for this tomorrow.
03:29I should add, I still think he would be able to pass this in parliament, but I think he's
03:34on much more shaky ground than he thought he was earlier today.
03:38Noga Tarnapolski, as always, thank you very much for bringing that insight that we value
03:42most dearly in that part of the world.
03:46Noga Tarnapolski, our correspondent in Jerusalem.
03:49We're watching, of course, for all developments.