Dennis Ross

Again, the Iranian regime believes that it's the other way around, that the Trump administration is keen for a deal to get this conflict resolved and off the radar ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.

Former U.S. negotiator Dennis Ross told Reuters that both sides may actually have more incentive to make progress before the election.

For Trump, reopening Hormuz could help contain politically sensitive gasoline prices and reduce uncertainty in the Middle East.

For Iran, the calculation may be that Trump has more incentive to make a deal now than he might after the election.

This is the enemy that Israel is facing.

I played you that speech from a part of a speech from Dennis Ross.

Dennis Ross was the envoy.

that Bill Clinton hired to negotiate an independent state with Yasser Arafat, the head of the PLO, gave them all of Gaza, 97% of the West Bank, shared control of Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine.

Money for the so-called right of return, virtually everything that they claimed that they wanted.

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The aftermath of Camp David 2000, the envoy of Bill Clinton, his name is Dennis Ross, offered a Palestinian state that comprised of 97% of the West Bank and all of Gaza.

By the way, a continuous West Bank.

Some say that they were just cantons and they were broken up.

the Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem as a Palestinian capital, so they'd be sharing the capital with Jerusalem, an international presence replacing Israeli forces in the Jordan Valley, refugee return to the Palestinian state, and a $30 billion international fund.

As a condition, Arafat was asked to accept Israeli sovereignty over the Western Wall and other Jewish holy sites, specified security arrangements, a refugee formula that excluded an unlimited right to return to Israel, but most of all, most important, declare conflict was over, renounce the violence.

This is what Dennis Ross, the envoy, said about this.

Number 75.

Yeah.

Anyway, I called some of his advisors, Phil Gordon, Dennis Ross, Shapiro.

Dan Shapiro.

Dan Shapiro.

And you put them together and you say, "All right, which one's gonna pull the other over [chuckles] to the, to the other side?" Is it, you know, the c- the, the guy with the, the Qatari, uh, uh, bankroll, or is it the guy, you know, who, who wants traditional diplomatic process to the extent that he's in touch with Palestinian, former Palestinian leaders and former Palestinian, you know, people and all this? Kushner's like really into the process.

He sees himself as like a Dennis Ross.

And the answer seems to be that Witkoff's pull is, his gravitational pull is stronger than whatever Kushner is bringing to that partnership.

And so the whole thing is really kind of in, uh, is, uh, you know, walking around, uh, and, uh, walking around and, and, and saying, you know, "This thing happened," while Trump is saying, "That's not what happened at all." Um, and you know, again, we like -- We -- You, you can't have, you can't have a, uh, you c- you can't have the o- Trump used to have the envoys on a shorter leash.

I want to give you one more data point before we move to the blind spot.

This one comes from Dennis Ross, former US ambassador, former special Middle East coordinator, arguably the most experienced American negotiator in the modern history of the region.

He said, and I am quoting directly, the Iranians have consistently surprised us in terms of their resilience.

Surprised us? The people whose entire professional mandate is to understand this country, After 45 years of dealing with this same government, still getting surprised by the same quality, resilience.