Hmm.

The more likely scenario, Aubrey, and the really dangerous moment that this is, is that Netanyahu has been rattling the war chains or beating the war drums.

And so it's quite likely, and many analysts are saying this, that immediately after the American midterm elections, while the coalition talks are happening in Israel, that Netanyahu will convince Donald Trump to launch another war against Iran.

Netanyahu has been saying, after the results were almost certain of the elections, that if he becomes prime minister again, He'll finish off the Iran issue.

He'll finish off this issue, that issue, etc.

And he will want to therefore prove that he can do it even before the coalition talks are over.

That means that for the entire region and globally, frankly, We are in a very, very dangerous moment.

So what is likely to happen just in terms of the negotiations to form a government? What is likely to happen structurally?

Your thoughts on the timing of the statement and the statement itself.

So just a little while ago, he, he issued, uh, on, on social media, he said that he was, um, kind of misrepresented, that he didn't say that, that he has great respect for Thabo Mbeki and said lots of nice things about, uh, the former president.

But he said that he didn't say anything about, uh, Mbeki playing, uh, that kind of a role as has been said.

And he also referred to a clip he did in an interview where he, um, he says proves that he didn't say that.

So that it seems that that, uh, that kind of statement from him is not correct.

And so statements like this would throw quite a bit of confusion into that diplomatic conversation if they were to indeed be, uh, taken at face value.

If the statement about Mbeki was true, then that would be a, a serious problem because here's a foreign, uh, diplomat, foreign ambassador, kind of, um, dictating to South Africa who, um, they should use to talk, uh, to his home country.

But seeing that he's saying that he didn't say that, right? So that's clear.

Mm.

Right? Look at Zimbabwe and Israel's role there, um, the DRC, et cetera, right? Um, so, so those two agendas have already been there.

With Trump coming in, you know, it's become starker in, in a sense, and two issues.

One is, of course, um, he says so in his, um, in his executive order last year, um, February 2025, right? One reason was South Africa's, uh, ICJ case of genocide against Israel.

So basically, South Africa is a problem in terms of having become a symbol of the, um, at a multilateral level, at a governmental state level, against Israel.

Mm.

Um, because South Africa needs to be cut down to size.

Small country on the tip of Africa that makes much more noise than it should.