since the early 90s, certainly. we heard president biden, didn t we, saying to israel and messaging towards netanyahu, essentially, look, he does not believe that hamas still is a threat to israel. he made a big speech laying out this proposal. how much leverage do you think the white house has over this process right now? i think, certainly, what was said during the announcement of this proposal, it s speaking to the us domestic audience, certainly, given, both inside the united states and more broadly, the leadership role that many constituencies in the us want to see the administration take in ending the humanitarian suffering and the really uncalled for civilian casualties in gaza, and ifully appreciate that, but i don t think we should be in
thoughts on the deal. i think what the deal contains is a staged process for the release of hostages in the first phase and a pause in the fighting, and then it goes on to a second stage with a longer pause, with more israeli withdrawals and the release of further hostages, then going on to a third stage, hopefully without any return to fighting, when you get on to the rebuilding of gaza. now, of course, all these plans are incredibly difficult to put in place. but fundamentally why i think this is a moment we should seize to try and bring this conflict to an end permanently is that, you know, it s one thing to call for a ceasefire, but of course, if you can t put in place the conditions that make a ceasefire sustainable, then it won t last. and this is an attempt to start to put those conditions in place, because we all know you ve got to look at issues of israeli security and issues of palestinian statehood alongside each other in order to make a deal last
another country, in my view. so, i don t think that s really appropriate, given the nature of what happened on october 7th, and we re seeing, certainly, since the conflict started, the offensive by israel into gaza, they still have a significant capability to launch long range munitions into israel and have the ability to fight the idf inside of gaza, so. it isn tjust the united states pushing for this, is it? we just heard from the uk s foreign minister, lord cameron, there. we saw a large group of arab nations as well pushing for this, qatar and egypt. there seems to be a lot of international pressure now, maybe the highest we have seen, to try to end this war with this deal. agree. i think it s important. again, the amount of suffering we have seen of the palestinian population inside of gaza is extremely concerning, the humanitarian crisis that, frankly, israel is responsible for addressing primarily,
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the position of assessing the security environment for another country, in my view. so, i don t think that s really appropriate, given the nature of what happened on october 7th, and we re seeing, certainly, since the conflict started, the offensive by israel into gaza, they still have a significant capability to launch long range munitions into israel and have the ability to fight the idf inside of gaza, so. it isn tjust the united states pushing for this, is it? we just heard from the uk s foreign minister, lord cameron, there. we saw a large group of arab nations as well pushing for this, qatar and egypt. there seems to be a lot of international pressure now, maybe the highest we have seen, to try to end this war with this deal. agree. i think it s important. again, the amount of suffering we have seen of the palestinian population inside of gaza is extremely concerning,