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Mark Fitzpatrick

Mark Fitzpatrick

Associate Fellow at International Institute for Strategic Studies; former US diplomat with 26 years of non-proliferation expertise.

Jun 24, 2026

8:02
How will Prime Minister Netanyahu respond to Washington's diplomatic endgame? I mean, I was reading Israeli press in the last three, four days, and it doesn't look good.
8:14
No, it's clearly...
8:15
Uh, it's clear that, uh, Netanyahu is not happy with the memorandum of understanding and even less happy with the, uh, prospect for a final, uh, nuclear deal with Iran that, uh, is even, uh, more lenient toward Iran than was President, uh, Obama's Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in 2015.
8:40
So Netanyahu opposes both of those.
8:43
He may think he has the ability to, uh, torpedo both of those.
8:49
Um, first of all, the memorandum of understanding has, as its first point, um, main- uh, the, um, uh, the sovereignty of, uh, of Lebanon and says that, um, the, uh, there will be a sustained ceasefire there.
9:06
Well, Netanyahu can decide that there won't be a, a ceasefire and that the sovereignty of Lebanon will continue to be violated.

9 MINS LATER

18:36
Did the White House sign this deal, uh, from a position of strength or because it concluded that military pressure alone would not achieve its objectives?

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