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Israeli Hostages are Home after 2yrs in Captivity · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: It is two am as I am recording this for
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  Speaker 1: you right now Eastern Standard time, and it is incredible
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  Speaker 1: to watch what is happening in Israel right now. Red
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  Speaker 1: Cross teams have already begun retrieving the captive who've been held,
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  Speaker 1: many of them underground for more than two years. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: many of them may not have even realized they were
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  Speaker 1: being rescued until they were put into the Red Cross vehicles.
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  Speaker 1: The initial batch of seven have been handed over early
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  Speaker 1: this morning, and the full transfer is expected by noon
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  Speaker 1: local time in Israel. Now, as I am doing this
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  Speaker 1: show right now, we are witnessing the emotional moment after
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  Speaker 1: more than two years of anguish since the October seventh
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  Speaker 1: teer attack that claimed more than one thy two hundred
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  Speaker 1: Israeli lives and saw two hundred and fifty one people
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  Speaker 1: abducted as hostages. In exchange for this moment, Israel will
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  Speaker 1: free approximately two one thousand Palestinian prisoners were being told,
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  Speaker 1: including two hundred and fifty serving long sentences and one thousand,
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred detained during the conflict. Alongside the return of
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight hostage bodies, the recovering the remains of the
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  Speaker 1: remaining deceised captives may extend beyond today, were being told.
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  Speaker 1: We also know that the president will be landing soon
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  Speaker 1: and greeted upon his arrival by the Israeli Prime Minister
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  Speaker 1: net and Yahoo and the Israeli President as well. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to hear the moment as it was told
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  Speaker 1: on CNN about the Israeli crowd cheering at the top
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  Speaker 1: of their lungs at Hostage Square upon the announcement of
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  Speaker 1: seven hostages who are alive being delivered to the Red Cross. Wolfe.
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  Speaker 2: I can tell you because it happened just moments ago.
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  Speaker 2: When the announcement came that the hostages were in the
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  Speaker 2: hands of the Red Cross, this entire crowd cheered at
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  Speaker 2: the top of their bombs of surprise. Honestly, you couldn't
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  Speaker 2: hear it from the rooftop of the hotel where you
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  Speaker 2: are now. It was extraordinary. We have seen this square,
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  Speaker 2: which has become a sort of vocal point before the
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  Speaker 2: movement to bring their hostages home, just fill up in
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  Speaker 2: the last few hours. Some people came here as early
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  Speaker 2: as four or five in the morning before sunrise to
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  Speaker 2: guarantee that they could get themselves a place to witness
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  Speaker 2: history walk because that is what is happening here now.
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  Speaker 2: There are many thousands of people who are here. You
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  Speaker 2: can see that brok behind me, black clock marks every second,
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  Speaker 2: every minute, every hour, every day that these hostages have
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  Speaker 2: been held in captivity. And now, for the first time,
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  Speaker 2: Israeli's really starting to embrace the very real possibility that
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  Speaker 2: that clock will finally stop with the arrival of these
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  Speaker 2: twenty hostages. And I will say, you can probably feel
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  Speaker 2: just the shift even then. Well, if you go from
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  Speaker 2: moments of elation where the crowd is cheering, to moments
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  Speaker 2: of real quiet, of real sadness, of real grief, we
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  Speaker 2: see a lot of tears in the crowd, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of emotion, a lot of posters as well for the
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  Speaker 2: hostages who will not be coming home alive today, have
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  Speaker 2: been killed in captivity, who will be coming home in coffins.
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  Speaker 2: And so you feel this sort of extraordinary wave of
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  Speaker 2: different emotions with Israelis, of all different political ideologies and
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  Speaker 2: backgrounds coming together in a display of unity, of joy,
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  Speaker 2: of grief, of sadness. There's a sense of serenity and comments.
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  Speaker 2: But such a long wait for these people, for these families,
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  Speaker 2: for the hostages who have been released and who I'm
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  Speaker 2: championed tirelessly around the clock to see all their fellow
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  Speaker 2: hostages home. And now we wait for the moment that
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  Speaker 2: these people, the entire country and the entire world will
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  Speaker 2: finally hear the words that those hostages are back in Israel. Wolf.
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  Speaker 1: We're also being told again as I'm doing this after
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  Speaker 1: two am Eastern time in the morning, that the Red
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  Speaker 1: Cross has now handed the first seven hostages who are
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  Speaker 1: still alive over to the Israeli military. This again is
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  Speaker 1: another moment where we now know these hostages will be safe.
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  Speaker 1: We also know that the Benjamin Netnaho had this to
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  Speaker 1: say earlier today about how we got to where we are. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you are going to hear NETANYAHUO speak first, Then you
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  Speaker 1: are going to hear Jared Kushner, the President's son in law,
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  Speaker 1: who worked on this deal as well. And then finally
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  Speaker 1: you are going to hear from another person, Steve Whitkoff,
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  Speaker 1: and you're going to hear all of what they had
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  Speaker 1: to say at a joint press conference about how we
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  Speaker 1: got to this moment. Listen carefully, We're.
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  Speaker 3: At a amendous development. In the last two years. We
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  Speaker 3: fought doing these two years to the achievea warreams in
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  Speaker 3: Central One of these warreams is to maternity osages, all
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  Speaker 3: of the osages, the living in the d and we're
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  Speaker 3: about to achieve that group. We couldn't live a chief
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  Speaker 3: without the extraordinary help President Conference, Steve Whitcomb and Garant Pushman.
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  Speaker 3: They worked tirelessly with Ron and his team, our team
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  Speaker 3: UH and UH that and the courage of our soldiers
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  Speaker 3: who UH entered Gaza, and the combined military and diplomatic
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  Speaker 3: pressure that isolated the class I think as bodies. To
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  Speaker 3: this point, I wanna personally thank both of you, Steve
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  Speaker 3: Jareded UH spend long hours work round the clock, but
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  Speaker 3: not only worked. I I think you you put in
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  Speaker 3: your UH, your brains and your hearts, and we know
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  Speaker 3: that it's UH for the benefit of Israel and the
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  Speaker 3: United States, for the benefit of UH decent people living there,
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  Speaker 3: and for the benefit of these families who will finally
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  Speaker 3: get to be with our mothers. And I want to
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  Speaker 3: thank you on their be out as well to behalfy
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  Speaker 3: for people who act you with ALM.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously bringing the hostages his home is a It's been
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  Speaker 4: a priority for President Trump for a very very long
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  Speaker 4: time and and we've all worked very.
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  Speaker 3: Tirelessly to do that.
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  Speaker 4: But I really want to say that this all would
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  Speaker 4: not have been possible without the bravery of the IDEF
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  Speaker 4: and the soldiers. What they've accomplished not just in Gaza,
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  Speaker 4: but also what they've done in the theater over the
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  Speaker 4: last couple of years to eliminate has belond the North
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  Speaker 4: and really degrade them. What you were able to do
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  Speaker 4: in Iran it really helps set a big tone. But
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  Speaker 4: particularly seeing the way that your citizen army, I know
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  Speaker 4: a lot of you, probably all of you have family
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  Speaker 4: friends who are in this effort. You know, really, you know,
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  Speaker 4: put your sacrifices on the line to fight for your
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  Speaker 4: country and to try and try to make a difference.
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  Speaker 4: I think that made a very very big difference in there,
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  Speaker 4: and I wanna just give a very very special thanks
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  Speaker 4: to mister Natanyahu, who really did an incredible job with
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  Speaker 4: this and did a great job to negotiations. You held
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  Speaker 4: your lines firm, and I think that between you and
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  Speaker 4: President Trump you had a lot of alignment on what the.
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  Speaker 3: End state should be.
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  Speaker 5: The hardest job was the Prime Minister's. He had the
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  Speaker 5: job of protecting this country. He had the job of
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  Speaker 5: making tough choices with regard to how tough to be
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  Speaker 5: with Hamas, when to be flexible, when not to be flexible.
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  Speaker 5: I think to myself all the time, I lost sleepover it.
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  Speaker 3: What would I have done.
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  Speaker 5: In some of those circumstances. There were times that I
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  Speaker 5: thought we should be more flexible, what your country should
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  Speaker 5: be more flexible? But the truth is, as I look back,
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  Speaker 5: I don't think we get to this place without Prime
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  Speaker 5: Minister Nanyahu playing it. I'm not just saying that, not
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  Speaker 5: just words. The President believes that, My president believes it
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  Speaker 5: believes that Prime Minister Netnyaku made some very very difficult calls,
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  Speaker 5: and lesser people would not have made those calls. And
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  Speaker 5: here we are today because Amas had to. They had
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  Speaker 5: to do this deal. The pressure was on them.
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  Speaker 3: They were backed up.
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  Speaker 5: And you've got the bigger army. You were making inroads
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  Speaker 5: and that's what led to this deal.
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  Speaker 1: Now, there are many leaders around the world, and many
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  Speaker 1: that are being honest about how incredible this moment is
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  Speaker 1: and how it would have not happened without the leadership
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  Speaker 1: of President Trump, who was clearly able to do something
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  Speaker 1: that the Biden administration never even got close to. Accomplishing
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  Speaker 1: and this is a moment where politics shouldn't actually matter.
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  Speaker 1: There are very few in the Democratic Party that are
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  Speaker 1: putting politics aside. One of those was actually Hillary Clinton,
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  Speaker 1: and here's what she had to say to the world
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  Speaker 1: about what is being accomplished right now.
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  Speaker 6: It's a really significant first s depth and I really
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  Speaker 6: commend President Trump and his administration, as well as Arab
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  Speaker 6: leaders in the region for making the commitment to the
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  Speaker 6: twenty point plan and seeing a path forward for what's
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  Speaker 6: often called the day After. Most importantly, the conflict hopefully
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  Speaker 6: will end with the ceasefire, the hostages will be returned,
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  Speaker 6: and then the very hard work of rebuilding Gaza, of
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  Speaker 6: finding the kind of security that Israel and the Palestinians
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  Speaker 6: after Hamas deserved to have. Moving forward with the other
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  Speaker 6: points in the plan to try to create an opportunity
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  Speaker 6: for Palestinians to have a better life and for Israel
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  Speaker 6: to have greater peace and security. I am very hopeful
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  Speaker 6: that we'll be able to see progress. Today's a good start,
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  Speaker 6: but we have to keep going from here.
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  Speaker 1: So this is where we are now at two ten
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  Speaker 1: am in the morning. We are expecting more hostages to
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  Speaker 1: be handed over and by the time you hear this,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully all twenty of the living hostages will be returned
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  Speaker 1: to Israel. We are also expecting that the President United
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  Speaker 1: States of America and Netanyahu will have a lot to
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  Speaker 1: say about this moment after he lands, and I promise
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  Speaker 1: you I will have all of it for you. So
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  Speaker 1: share this forty seven special update wherever you can on
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  Speaker 1: social media. Pray for the hostages, pray for their families,
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  Speaker 1: and also pray for those whose loved ones are being returned.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately that we're killed that were murdered by these terrasts.
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  Speaker 1: There are many that are going to be grieving and
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  Speaker 1: are going to be sad, and are going to be
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  Speaker 1: wishing that it was theirs that was still alive one
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  Speaker 1: instead of being the remains being returned. Our thoughts and
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  Speaker 1: prayers with the people in Israel and so many that
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  Speaker 1: every call you make. President Donald Trump has set off
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  Speaker 1: for Israel and Egypt on Sunday to celebrate the US
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  Speaker 1: broker ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas and
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  Speaker 1: to urge Middle East allies to seize the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: build a durable peace in the volatile region. Now you
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  Speaker 1: think about that, and it's pretty incredible that we're even
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  Speaker 1: having this conversation because you have a president that said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to take on the impossible. That's what I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to do. Well, not only did President Trump set
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  Speaker 1: off to do this, but he knows it's a fragile
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  Speaker 1: moment with Israel and Hamas only in the early stages
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  Speaker 1: of implementing the first phase of the Trump Agreement, designed
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  Speaker 1: to bring a permanent end to the war that sparked
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  Speaker 1: the October seventh attack on Israel, which has lit all
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  Speaker 1: of this on fire by the Hamas and Ran backed militants.
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  Speaker 1: Trump thinks there's a narrow window to reshape the Middle
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  Speaker 1: East and reset long, well tough relations between Israel and
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  Speaker 1: its Arab neighbors. It is in a moment, the Republican
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  Speaker 1: president says that has been helped along by his administration's
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  Speaker 1: support of Israel's decision to decimate Iranian proxies, including Hamas
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  Speaker 1: and Gaza and haspalagn Lebanon, and also America attacking those
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  Speaker 1: nuclear sites in Iran. Trump told reporters before Air Force
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  Speaker 1: One took off, quote, we are very excited about this
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  Speaker 1: moment in time, he said, many people in both Israel
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  Speaker 1: and Arab countries were cheering the agreement, adding that everybody's
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  Speaker 1: amazed and they're thrilled, and we're going to have an
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  Speaker 1: amazing time. The White House says momentum is also building
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  Speaker 1: because Arab and Muslim states are demonstrating a renewed focus
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  Speaker 1: on resolving the broader decades along Israeli Palestinian conflict and
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  Speaker 1: in some cases deepening relations with the United States of America.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump's comments as a trip began followed him saying
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  Speaker 1: Friday that quote, I think you are going to have
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  Speaker 1: tremendous success, and Gaza is going to be rebuilt, and
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  Speaker 1: that you have some very wealthy countries, as you know
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  Speaker 1: over there. It would take a small fraction of their
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  Speaker 1: wealth to do that, and I think they want to
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  Speaker 1: do it now. The first phase of the ceasefire agreement
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  Speaker 1: calls for the release of the final forty eight hostages
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  Speaker 1: held by Hamas, including about twenty to believe to be alive.
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  Speaker 1: The release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel
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  Speaker 1: is part of the trade. A surge of humanitarian aid
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  Speaker 1: will also come to Gaza and a partial pullback by
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  Speaker 1: Israeli forces from Gaza's main cities. Israeli troops on Friday
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  Speaker 1: finished withdrawing from parts of Gaza, triggering a seventy two
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  Speaker 1: hour countdown under the deal for Hamas to release it's
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  Speaker 1: Israeli hotages, potentially while Trump is on the ground there.
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  Speaker 1: He said he expected their return to be completed on
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  Speaker 1: Monday or Tuesday. Trump will then visit with Israel first
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  Speaker 1: to meet with hostage families, and they will also meet
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  Speaker 1: with Parliament. An honor last ex senate to President George W.
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  Speaker 1: Bush during his visit in two thousand and eight. Vice
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  Speaker 1: President Jedy Vance on Sunday also said Trump is likely
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  Speaker 1: to meet with the newly freed hostages. Knock on wood,
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  Speaker 1: he said, but we feel very confident the hostages will
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  Speaker 1: be released, and this president is actually traveling to the
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  Speaker 1: Middle East, likely this evening in order to meet them
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  Speaker 1: and greet them in person, is what Vance told CBS's
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  Speaker 1: Face the Nation. Then after that, Trump will stop in Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: where he and the Egyptian president will lead a summit
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  Speaker 1: with leaders from more than twenty countries on peace and
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  Speaker 1: Gaza and in the broader Middle East. Is a tremendous truce,
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  Speaker 1: and is unclear whether the sides have reached an agreement
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  Speaker 1: on Gaza's postward governance. The territory's reconstruction will be on
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  Speaker 1: the table as well, and Israel's demands at Amas's disarm
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  Speaker 1: Negotiations over those issues could break down. That's a real
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  Speaker 1: part of the conversation, and Israel has hinted it may
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  Speaker 1: resume military operations if its demands are quote not met now.
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  Speaker 1: Hr McMaster, national security advisor during Trump's first term, said
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  Speaker 1: this quote, I think the chances of amostis arming themselves,
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  Speaker 1: you know, are pretty close to zero. He said this
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  Speaker 1: during an event for the Defense of Democracies on Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: He said he thought what probably would happen in the
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  Speaker 1: coming months is the Israeli army. The Israeli military is
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  Speaker 1: going to have to just destroy them. Now, Israel continues
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  Speaker 1: to roll over millions of Palestinians without basic rights as
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  Speaker 1: settlements expand rapidly across the occupied West Bank. Despite growing
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  Speaker 1: international recognition, Palestinian statehood appears exceedingly remote because of Israel's
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  Speaker 1: opposition and actions on the ground there as well. Is
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  Speaker 1: how it's being reported in The Times. The war has
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  Speaker 1: quote left Israel isolated internationally, they claim, in facing allegations
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  Speaker 1: of genocide, which obviously they are denying. They're also international
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  Speaker 1: rest warrants against Prime Minister net Yahoo and as former
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  Speaker 1: Defense minister. They are in effect right now, and the
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  Speaker 1: United Nations Highest Court is considering allegations of genocide that
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  Speaker 1: have now been brought by South Africa. I wish I
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  Speaker 1: was joking, I am not. Now Here's what we do know.
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  Speaker 1: Hamas has been militarily decimated and has given up its
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  Speaker 1: only bargaining chip with Israel by releasing the hostages, but
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  Speaker 1: the Islamic militant group is still intact and could eventually
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  Speaker 1: rebuild if there's an extended period of calm. Part of
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  Speaker 1: the reason why they're probably agreeing to the cease fire.
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  Speaker 1: It's something they've done history after they get hit hard.
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  Speaker 1: Net Nahoo has also reiterated that Israel would continue with
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  Speaker 1: its demilitarization of Hamas after the hostages are returned if
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  Speaker 1: they do not agree to their terms. Quote. Hamas agreed
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  Speaker 1: to the deal only when it felt the sword was
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  Speaker 1: on its neck and is still on its neck, is
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  Speaker 1: what Netnahu said Friday, as Israel began to pull back
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  Speaker 1: its troops. Now much of Gaza has been reduced to rubble,
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  Speaker 1: and rebuilding it is expected to literally take years. The
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  Speaker 1: territory's roughly two million residents continue to struggle because while
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  Speaker 1: they were in bed with Terrists who went after Israel
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  Speaker 1: and the worst attack on the Jews since the Holocaust. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about the deal for a second. Under the deal,
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  Speaker 1: Israel agreed to reopen five border crossings. That is significant
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  Speaker 1: because it will help ease the flood flow of food
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  Speaker 1: and other supplies into Gaza, part of which they the
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  Speaker 1: international community certainly those on the left and those that
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  Speaker 1: support the Palestinians say are experiencing real famine. Trump is
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  Speaker 1: also standing up with a US led civilian military coordination
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  Speaker 1: center in Israel to help facilitate the flow of humanitarian
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  Speaker 1: aid as well as logistical and security assistants into Gaza. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there are roughly two hundred US troops. Let me say
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  Speaker 1: that again. They are roughly two hundred US troops that
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  Speaker 1: will help support and monitor the ceasefire deal as part
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  Speaker 1: of a team that includes partner nations. We also know
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  Speaker 1: that non governmental organizations in goos and private sector players
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  Speaker 1: are involved as well. US troops will not be sent
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  Speaker 1: to Gaza. That is what the US military commander for
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  Speaker 1: the region said in a social media post on Saturday. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the White House is signal that Trump is looking to
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  Speaker 1: quickly return attention to building on a first effort known
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  Speaker 1: as the Abraham Accords, which forge diplomatic and commercial ties
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  Speaker 1: between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain and Morocco, a permanent
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  Speaker 1: agreement in gods that would help pave the way for
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  Speaker 1: Trump to begin talks with Saudi Arabia as well as Indonesia,
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  Speaker 1: the most populous Muslim country towards normalizing ties with Israel.
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  Speaker 1: This all according to senior Trump administration officials who decided
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  Speaker 1: to brief reporters on this. Now, such a deal with
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  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, the most powerful and wealthy Arab nation, has
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  Speaker 1: the potential to also reshape the region and boost Israel's
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  Speaker 1: standing in historic new ways. But brokering in agreement remains
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  Speaker 1: a heavy lift, as the kingdoms said it won't officially
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  Speaker 1: recognize Israel before a resolution to the Israeli Palace and
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  Speaker 1: in conflict is reached. Now, I've told you a lot
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  Speaker 1: about President Donald Trump, but let me also be bringing
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  Speaker 1: you up to date. Let me say that word again.
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  Speaker 1: Whot me now bring you up to date of what
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  Speaker 1: Benjamin Netan Yahoo is saying. Net Yahoo, the Prime Minister
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  Speaker 1: of Israel, addressed the nation of Israel Sunday night, this
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  Speaker 1: on the eve of the return of the remaining hostages
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  Speaker 1: to Israel, calling it quote an evening of tears and joy,
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  Speaker 1: while warning that the threat to Israel's security is not over.
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  Speaker 1: Net Yahoo spoke from Jerusalem. He opened with a direct
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  Speaker 1: appeal to the Israelis, saying, quote, citizens of Israel, my
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  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters, this is an emotional evening, an evening
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  Speaker 1: of tears, an evening of joy, because tomorrow children will
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  Speaker 1: return to their border. He casts a moment as one
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  Speaker 1: of profound national meaning, calling it a moment that blends
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  Speaker 1: sorrow over the release of murderers and joy over the
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  Speaker 1: return of hostages. He stressed it while some did not
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  Speaker 1: believe it would happen, are fighters believed, many among the
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  Speaker 1: people believed, and I believed. The Israeli Prime Minister called
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  Speaker 1: for unity despite political divisions, saying quote, I know there
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  Speaker 1: are many disagreements among us, but on this day, and
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  Speaker 1: I hope also in the period ahead, we have every
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  Speaker 1: reason to put them aside, because through joint efforts, we
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  Speaker 1: achieved enormous victories. Victories astonished the entire world, and I
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  Speaker 1: want to say everywhere we fought, we won. He then
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  Speaker 1: warned the Israeli people in the address to the nation
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday evening that Israel's mission is unfinished, saying quote,
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  Speaker 1: in the same breath, I must tell you the campaign
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  Speaker 1: is not over. There are still very great security challenges
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  Speaker 1: ahead of us. Some of our enemies are trying to
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  Speaker 1: rebuild themselves to attack us again. And as we say,
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  Speaker 1: we're on it Netnah, who also pointed to gains that
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  Speaker 1: he said have opened new avenues. There are also great
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  Speaker 1: opportunities that we have never known before, precisely because the
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  Speaker 1: victories we brought. I am convinced that through joint efforts,
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  Speaker 1: we will overcome the challenges and realize the opportunities. He
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  Speaker 1: spoke of meetings with hostage families that shape his decision,
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  Speaker 1: saying quote, during the war, my wife and I met
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  Speaker 1: many times the families of the abductees. We saw their pain,
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  Speaker 1: their yearning, their tears. These meetings were with me, and
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  Speaker 1: every decision I made during the war, we embraced the families,
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  Speaker 1: and I promise them I will not rest until I
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  Speaker 1: bring your loved ones back. Netnah then saluted the country's
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  Speaker 1: resilience among the troops and the public, saying quote, I
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  Speaker 1: wish to thank the IDF soldiers and the commanders, the
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  Speaker 1: security forces, the bereaved families who lost. What is most
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  Speaker 1: dear to them are heroic wounded, who carry their pain
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  Speaker 1: in body and soul. And I wish to thank you
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  Speaker 1: citizens of Israel, you who stood strong day after day
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  Speaker 1: with love for our country and faith in the justice
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  Speaker 1: of our path. Closing his remarks. The Prime Minister also
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  Speaker 1: looked ahead by saying this tomorrow is the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: a new path, a path of building Netnyahu said, a
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  Speaker 1: path of healing and hope, a path of uniting hearts. Together,
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  Speaker 1: we will continue to strengthen our country. Together, we will
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  Speaker 1: continue to win, and with God's help, together we will
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  Speaker 1: ensure the eternity of Israel. Now, this address comes as
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  Speaker 1: the iss Israel implements it ceasefire agreement with Hamas, and
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  Speaker 1: as Israel prepares for the hostage handover, the culmination of
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  Speaker 1: a dual track of military pressure and the diplomacy that
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  Speaker 1: Detau had argued vindicated his approach over the years of war.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier on Sunday as well, the IDF Chief of Staff
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  Speaker 1: announced operation returning Home, saying the IDF had redeployed to
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  Speaker 1: cease fire lines at full readiness and was prepared to
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  Speaker 1: strike any enemy who dares to raise its head. He
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  Speaker 1: also praised a generation of victory, honored nine hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifteen fallen soldiers, and said Israel remains engaged in a
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  Speaker 1: multi front campaign with further challenges ahead. This all as
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  Speaker 1: President Trump is on his way on his way to
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  Speaker 1: address Monday morning, the people and this country and the world,
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  Speaker 1: meeting with the hostage family, and then travel as well
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  Speaker 1: for a Middle East peace ceremony on the hills of
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  Speaker 1: the historic peace agreement he broke her between Israel and Hamas. Now,
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  Speaker 1: as I said earlier, under the Trump Broker deal, Hamas
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  Speaker 1: will release. This is what is being planned now, all
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  Speaker 1: remaining hostages living and deceased, and that will be in
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  Speaker 1: exchange for a large scale prisoner release as well. So
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  Speaker 1: this is where we are, this is what we're looking at.
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  Speaker 1: This is the reality of the situation. I also want
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  Speaker 1: to be clear, this is going to be very tough
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  Speaker 1: moving forward. Why because we know what the enemy is,
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  Speaker 1: We know what the enemy believes in. We know that
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  Speaker 1: Hamas and Iran and Hezbelah are ones that really never
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  Speaker 1: want to stop killing. That is clearly why you've heard
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  Speaker 1: the way the DT Nyahu and also so Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: have responded to this. They've made it incredibly clear that
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  Speaker 1: they are not going to back down or allow for
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  Speaker 1: their people to be hit in any way. Like we've
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  Speaker 1: witnessed before. They are worried about another October seventh style attack.
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  Speaker 1: They are worried that they are going to be people
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  Speaker 1: that will try to take advantage of this ceasefire. That's
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  Speaker 1: also the reason why they're saying we are going to
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  Speaker 1: stay alert. So the big takeaway is this, will this happen?
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a very good chance. Has Hamas been
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  Speaker 1: decimated to the point where they need a ceasefire to reorganize?
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  Speaker 1: That may be part of what they're actually thinking about
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  Speaker 1: is truly reorganizing. Do they need the humanitarian aid to
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  Speaker 1: come in? Probably so, even for their own families. Are
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  Speaker 1: they isolated, underfunded, without weaponry and with a very small
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  Speaker 1: fire force. That is what Hamas is dealing with. But
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  Speaker 1: what Israeli is saying is we're not going to allow
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  Speaker 1: for this to just be about them re arming or
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  Speaker 1: training or reorganizing. That they said they're not going to
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