If it weren't for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ongoing criminal trial and the multiple investigations into payments made by Qatar to his closest aides, the Gaza war could have been over, Bar Peleg, who has been covering Netanyahu's legal woes, said on the Haaretz Podcast.

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