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Sharri | 14 October · Sharri

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Speaker 1: Live on Sky News.
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Speaker 2: This is Sharry.
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Speaker 3: Good evening. Tears and relief as the hostages reunite with
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Speaker 3: their families. With a ceasfire now in place, surely it's
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Speaker 3: time for the protesters to pack away. Josh Friedenberg calls
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Speaker 3: for action in an exclusive interview. And while the world
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Speaker 3: was celebrating Trump last night for delivering peace, the ABC
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Speaker 3: ran a hit job. Elon Levy will be on the
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Speaker 3: show to discuss media bias, but first to the heartwarming
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Speaker 3: reunions of hostages with their loved ones. Moments we feared
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Speaker 3: would never happen as they were all but lost to
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Speaker 3: the terror tunnels of Gaza. And you can't see these
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Speaker 3: joyful embraces enough after all the heartache of the past
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Speaker 3: two years. These are some of the moments that brought
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Speaker 3: tears to my eyes. You'll recall this distress footage when
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Speaker 3: Noah Agamani was cruelly kidnapped on October seven, separated from
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Speaker 3: her boyfriend Avinatan Or, she yelled out, don't kill me
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Speaker 3: as she reached for him. Well, she was rescued in
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Speaker 3: Israel last year, and finally she's now been reunited with
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Speaker 3: her boyfriend.
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Speaker 4: Lord Money.
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Speaker 3: It's so beautiful. But you can also see how emaciated
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Speaker 3: he is, and he's estimated to have lost around thirty
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Speaker 3: to forty percent of his body weight. Nimrod Cohen was
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Speaker 3: kidnapped at nineteen and here he is reuniting with his family,
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Speaker 3: also looking far too thin, but at least he's home.
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Speaker 3: Nimrod's mother campaigned so hard for his freedom. Like any mother,
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Speaker 3: she would do anything to bring her boy home, and
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Speaker 3: now he's safe in her arms. And here's the moment
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Speaker 3: of pure ecstasy when hostage Matana Angrest reunites with his family.
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Speaker 3: Isn't it so hard to watch all of these without
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Speaker 3: tearing up? And here's father Omri Mran playing with his
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Speaker 3: little girls, Ronnie and Alma, a moment he's no doubt
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Speaker 3: dreamt about for two long years while being physically and
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Speaker 3: mentally tortured, just to think how much he missed out on.
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Speaker 3: And other dads too had heartwarming and tear jerking reunions
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Speaker 3: with their children, like el Kana Bohbot with his five
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Speaker 3: year old son, his wife sobbing as they embraced for
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Speaker 3: the first time. It's just so beautiful. There's now a
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Speaker 3: debate in Israel about what to call hostage square, and
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Speaker 3: the two leading contenders are Freed square or Trump square.
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Speaker 3: But for twenty four families, the heartache continues. Hermas broke
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Speaker 3: its agreement under the deal to return the dead bodies
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Speaker 3: of the fallen hostages. Their families desperately wanted to bring
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Speaker 3: them home, to give them a proper Jewish burial and
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Speaker 3: lay them to rest in their homeland of Israel. Trump
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Speaker 3: made that commitment last night that their bodies do need
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Speaker 3: to be brought home. And speaking of Trump, well, we
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Speaker 3: have to speak about his speech last night. It was
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Speaker 3: triumphant and also hilarious and wild. It was Trump on
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Speaker 3: a high from all that he'd achieved from bringing the
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Speaker 3: hostages home, and it was truly a speech to behold.
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Speaker 3: His morality and the strength of the President and the
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Speaker 3: United States was on display, and he had some very
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Speaker 3: clear messages declaring that Israel had won.
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Speaker 2: So Israel, with our help, has won all that.
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Speaker 4: They can by force of arms. You've won, I mean
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Speaker 4: you've won. Now it's time to translate these victories against
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Speaker 4: terrorists on the battlefield into the ultimate prize of peace
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Speaker 4: and prosperity for the entire Middle East. It's about time
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Speaker 4: you were able to enjoy the fruits of your labor.
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Speaker 3: And he's completely rite. Trump and Nadi Yahoo won this war.
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Speaker 3: They brought the hostages home with no thanks to the
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Speaker 3: left wing leaders like Alban Easy Starmer and Macron, whose
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Speaker 3: so called diplomacy only strengthened the arm of terrorists while
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Speaker 3: criticizing Israel and continually demanding that it stopped its military campaign,
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Speaker 3: the very military pressure that led to Harmas releasing the hostages. Now,
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Speaker 3: Trump's speech, and I know you watched it last night.
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Speaker 3: It was also unpredictable, off script and completely hilarious. And
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Speaker 3: here's a couple of moments that had me laughing out loud.
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Speaker 1: I like going to.
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Speaker 5: Get the Avraham of course, because people that what Avrahama,
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Speaker 5: It's so cool, it's so much short of nice, you know,
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Speaker 5: the Abraham versus the Avraham.
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Speaker 3: I think we should all now refer to it as
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Speaker 3: the Avraham Accords. And after that left wing protester and
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Speaker 3: MP interrupted his speech. Trump said this over.
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Speaker 1: That was very efficient, so back to Steve Peve.
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Speaker 3: He also joked about how long the speeches of the
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Speaker 3: opposition later the speaker and even Neda Yahu were.
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Speaker 4: As soon as I'm finished, I'm quite late.
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Speaker 2: You've kept me quite late between opposite leaders and BB's
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Speaker 2: brilliant but very long speech. I thought I was going
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Speaker 2: to run up here, make a speech and then head
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Speaker 2: to Egypt.
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Speaker 4: It didn't work out, though, and you made a pretty
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Speaker 4: long one too, sir.
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Speaker 3: And that speaker really did enjoy his moment of limelight.
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Speaker 3: And by the way, those comments from Trump were despite
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Speaker 3: his own speech, far exceeding all of theirs. That I
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Speaker 3: enjoyed every minute of it. And Trump was awarded the
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Speaker 3: Israeli Presidential Medal of Honor, richly deserved. Now, the news
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Speaker 3: moved so fast these days that I want to just
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Speaker 3: take a moment to reflect the release of the hostages
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Speaker 3: marks the closing of a chapter that began two long
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Speaker 3: years ago. Healing can finally begin for the hostages, their families,
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Speaker 3: Israelis and the diaspora. Now, every year it passover, the
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Speaker 3: Jewish community tells the story of Jews freed from slavery
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Speaker 3: in Egypt, and the children sing, let my people go.
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Speaker 3: It's a timeless reminder of persecution, captivity and the fight
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Speaker 3: for freedom, and once again that ancient struggle echoes in
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Speaker 3: our own time. The battle has now been won, with
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Speaker 3: the joyful reunion of the hostages, but it's not without
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Speaker 3: loss and pain and suffering. The deal came too late
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Speaker 3: for many, more than one hundred killed in harmask captivity,
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Speaker 3: including baby Kafir, his brother Ariel, and their mum Shiri.
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Speaker 3: We've also lost nearly a one thousand young soldiers and
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Speaker 3: one thousand, two hundred innocent souls on October seven to
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Speaker 3: the darkness of hatred and evil, the cruel terrorism that
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Speaker 3: somehow found support in the West. Now we are all
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Speaker 3: forever changed because of these past two years. We're bruised, scarred,
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Speaker 3: yet stronger and more resolute. And today, at last, I
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Speaker 3: feel we can breathe again, we can exhale. Our people
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Speaker 3: are free, and the sun shines once more. Now for
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Speaker 3: more on this topic, I spoke with former Treasurer Josh
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Speaker 3: Friedenberg in the last hour. Josh, thank you so much
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Speaker 3: for being here. You've been front and center these past
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Speaker 3: two years.
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Speaker 6: How are you.
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Speaker 3: Feeling today after the release of the remaining living hostages.
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Speaker 1: Well, Charie, like everyone, I'm feeling an enormous sense of relief.
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Speaker 1: It's as if a dark cloud has been lifted that
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Speaker 1: is covered for the last two years years and one
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Speaker 1: couldn't help but shed a tear of jubilation with the
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Speaker 1: families being reunited with their loved ones. But there's also
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Speaker 1: a deep sense of sadness given the level of destruction
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Speaker 1: and devastation and death that we've seen over the last
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Speaker 1: two years, and particularly the barbarity of October the seventh itself.
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Speaker 1: But I can't but help feel hopeful about the future
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Speaker 1: following the President's speech to the Canesset, but also the
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Speaker 1: gathering of world leaders in Shamilshek in Egypt that have
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Speaker 1: signed on to this peace plan. So yes, there is
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Speaker 1: uncertainty as to what will unfold in the months and
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Speaker 1: years ahead, but certainly I'm the most hopeful I have
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Speaker 1: been for some time.
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Speaker 3: No, it was such a beautiful sight to see all
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Speaker 3: those loving families. I agree there's a lot of hope today.
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Speaker 3: You just refer to the peace agreement in Egypt and
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Speaker 3: message is that this is in our time for peace.
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Speaker 3: But how great of a challenge will this next phase
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Speaker 3: be of disarming a mass we know their intent on
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Speaker 3: destroying Israel and then also finding an independent new governing body.
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Speaker 1: Well it's a very steep hill to climb, but if
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Speaker 1: anyone can climb it. I think the President of the
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Speaker 1: United States can, and he seems to be fully committed
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Speaker 1: to it, and it's going to define his presidency in
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Speaker 1: many ways, certainly in terms of the foreign policy results
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Speaker 1: that he's able to achieve. The hard work, though, begins now,
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Speaker 1: as you say, disarming a mus which shows no intent
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Speaker 1: of wanting to do that, at least voluntarily. We must
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Speaker 1: rebuild Gaza because it is the side of enormous devastation
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Speaker 1: and people deserve to have a fresh start there. And critically,
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Speaker 1: you need proper governance and an education system that doesn't
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Speaker 1: reward terror, that doesn't inside violence, that doesn't pay the slay,
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Speaker 1: that doesn't teach kids that Israel and Jews are the
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Speaker 1: enemy basically from the day of their of their early schooling,
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Speaker 1: the first day of their early schooling, and that's what
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Speaker 1: we had seen in Gaza up till now. So there
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Speaker 1: is an opportunity, and I think you know, the president's
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Speaker 1: got significant runway. He's got another three and a bit
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Speaker 1: years of his term to run. He's certainly got enormous
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Speaker 1: leverage over the key Muslim and Arab countries. We know
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Speaker 1: that Egypt is the second largest recipient of usaid. We
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Speaker 1: know that Katar looks to the United States for a
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Speaker 1: security guarantee, particularly after the Israeli attack on HAMAS officials
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Speaker 1: in Doha, and then of course Turkey is public about
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Speaker 1: wanting the latest American weapons system. So these countries that
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Speaker 1: have influence over Hamas have been have been brought to
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Speaker 1: the table by an American president who's willing to use
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Speaker 1: that leverage. And of course the president has leverage with Israel,
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Speaker 1: and Israel has paid a high price by handing over
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Speaker 1: prisoners two hundred and fifty of whom were facing life
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Speaker 1: sentences for murder in return for the hostages who had
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Speaker 1: been brutally treated in the dungeons of Gaza. And that
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Speaker 1: was an ourd deal, but one that I'm sure every
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Speaker 1: Prime Minister of Israel would take because the focuses on
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Speaker 1: the life of those Israeli hostages who are being held
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Speaker 1: for so long.
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Speaker 3: Exactly. I also want to ask you about the role
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Speaker 3: of Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanezi and Foreign Minister Penny Wong.
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Speaker 3: They claim they played a role in building momentum for
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Speaker 3: peace by recognizing a Palestinian state. Should they be taking
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Speaker 3: credit for Trump's peace plan.
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Speaker 1: It's insulting in the extreme Shari for Australia to be
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Speaker 1: claiming credit for what has transparred over the last twenty
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Speaker 1: four hours. Credit is due to the President of the
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Speaker 1: United States, and it's wrong, it's offensive, that doesn't withstand
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Speaker 1: a second of scrutiny. And as I've written, I think
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Speaker 1: Penny Wong should be condemned for taking a victory lap
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Speaker 1: over Donald Trump's finishing line, the reality, the.
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Speaker 3: Great line, by the way, great line, and on.
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Speaker 1: All of the reality shari is from day one, Penny Wong,
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Speaker 1: after the attack on October the seventh, was publicly calling
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Speaker 1: for Israel's restraint before Israel had even militarily responded to
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Speaker 1: that attack, and certainly before the blood of Israeli victims
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Speaker 1: were even dry. And then from there Australia was supporting
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Speaker 1: ceasefire resolutions in the UN that didn't even mention Hamas
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Speaker 1: or didn't even mention the hostages, and certainly did not
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Speaker 1: support Israel going into those places in Rapah and Gaza
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Speaker 1: City where the hostages were. And then you had the
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Speaker 1: International Criminal Court engage in an immoral act of law
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Speaker 1: fair by putting Israeli democratically elected leaders who had been
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Speaker 1: attacked on October the seventh on the same pedestal as
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Speaker 1: the terrorist organization Hamas that had attacked on October the
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Speaker 1: seventhiert Australia did not speak up and should be condemned
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Speaker 1: from that. And then, of course, as you referred to,
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Speaker 1: Australia recognized Palestinian statehood while the hostages were still in
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Speaker 1: the dungeons of Gaza and while Hammas was still in control,
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Speaker 1: and that was condemned by the US Secretary of State
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Speaker 1: Marco Rubio, who said it was being done for domestic
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Speaker 1: political purposes, which it was, but also that the only
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Speaker 1: impact of it would be to embolden a muss So
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Speaker 1: it's just obvious that Australia has not played any meaningful
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Speaker 1: or positive role in getting to the result that we
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Speaker 1: saw yesterday. And how for the life of them Australia
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Speaker 1: could pat itself on the back, or at least the
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Speaker 1: alven Easy government could pat itself on the back for
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Speaker 1: being praised by the terrorists of a Musk who threaten
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Speaker 1: our security while simultaneously being condemned by the US Secretary
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Speaker 1: of State and the United States, which guarantee our security.
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Speaker 1: Is really a question that they must be held accountable.
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Speaker 3: For Josh, just finally, you've been a great leader on
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Speaker 3: the rise in anti Semitism in Australia. Now that there's
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Speaker 3: a cease fire, are these weekly pro Palestinian protests with
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Speaker 3: their hateful aren't still necessary? I mean, what are they
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Speaker 3: actually protesting?
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Speaker 1: Well, absolutely, they're not necessary. And it's pretty telling, isn't
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Speaker 1: it that as a cease fire was put in place
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Speaker 1: and the hostages were released, that the pro Palestinian protesters
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Speaker 1: were silent in terms of in terms of welcoming what
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Speaker 1: was an end to the fighting and an end to
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Speaker 1: the war. I've said all along Sharhi that these daily
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Speaker 1: and weekly protests around the country are incubators of hate.
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Speaker 1: We have seen members of parliament, members of Albanese's government
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Speaker 1: marching under the banner of the Atollah in Iran. We
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Speaker 1: have seen people holding up signs saying Zionists are terrorists
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Speaker 1: due are Nazis, waving the flags of listed terrorist organizations
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Speaker 1: Amas and Hezbala, saying death to the IDF and from
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Speaker 1: the river to the sea, these protests are incubators of
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Speaker 1: hate and they've divided US society, not united our society
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Speaker 1: and where were those protesters when there was widespread devastation
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Speaker 1: and destruction and killing in the Sudan, in Yemen, or
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Speaker 1: indeed in Syria, they were nowhere to be seen and
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Speaker 1: that exposes the double standards and the hypocrisy of them.
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Speaker 1: But at the same time, just yesterday we heard from
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Speaker 1: the Chief Commissioner of Police in Victoria that as a
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Speaker 1: result of these protests in Melbourne, twenty five thousand police
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Speaker 1: ships have been required. And in these words and in
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Speaker 1: his words Shari, if half of those ships could have
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Speaker 1: been dedicated to fighting crime, we wouldn't see the wave
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Speaker 1: of crime that we've seen in Melbourne. So I think
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Speaker 1: any decent minded, well meaning Australian would say, now that
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Speaker 1: the war seems to be at an end, it's time
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Speaker 1: that these protests come to an end. And that's in
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Speaker 1: the interests of social cohesion. But it's also in the
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Speaker 1: interests of community safety, because on both counts these protests
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Speaker 1: have undermined what is good and what is proper for Australia.
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Speaker 1: The only social coasion and community safety.
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Speaker 3: Really important message there, Josh, thank you so much for
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Speaker 3: joining us and have costs for your incredible leadership over
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Speaker 3: the past two years. Appreciate your time.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you.
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Speaker 3: After the break, Biden tries to take credit for Trump's
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Speaker 3: peace plan while the ABC smashes Trump on the very
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Speaker 3: night he delivers. Elon Levy's up after this, On the
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Speaker 3: day the hostages were freed, CNN's host Christiane amanpau made
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Speaker 3: these appalling comments.
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Speaker 6: It's been a terrible, terrible two years for them because
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Speaker 6: not only are they there, you know, they're probably been
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Speaker 6: treated better than the average garden, because they are the
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Speaker 6: pawns and the chips that Hamas had. Now Hamas has
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Speaker 6: given up all its leverage.
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Speaker 3: By the way, the ABC missed the mark as well,
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Speaker 3: running a hit job on Trump on the same night
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Speaker 3: he signed the peace deal in Egypt. Elon Levy joins
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Speaker 3: US Now Live from Israel. Elon, what's your view on
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Speaker 3: this extraordinary media bias?
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Speaker 7: I mean, Charlie, what a phenomenally stupid thing for Christianamanporta
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Speaker 7: say that the hostages were treated better than the average garden.
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Speaker 7: I thought you'd have learned her lesson after Sky News
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Speaker 7: the other sky News, not yours. Dominic Waghorn said at
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Speaker 7: the beginning of the war that the hostages were being
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Speaker 7: held in reasonable conditions.
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Speaker 1: She should pick up a copy.
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Speaker 7: Of Eli Sharabi's new memoir which I translated, where he
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Speaker 7: talks about the maggots on their toothbrushes. She should speak
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Speaker 7: to the hostages who said they were held underground for
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Speaker 7: two years, no fresh air, no sunlight. One hostage said
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Speaker 7: he had to beg on his own wedding anniversary to
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Speaker 7: be able to shower. We know hostages were being held
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Speaker 7: without any other Israelis near them, so they're surrounded only
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Speaker 7: by the mask Jihadis who are threatening to kill them.
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Speaker 7: Who starved them, especially for the cameras, who forced one
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Speaker 7: of them to dig his own grave, and then they
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Speaker 7: fattened them up so that they could be released, Who
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Speaker 7: executed hostages in cold blood in tunnels underneath Gaza. The
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Speaker 7: hostages were treated in an appalling and horrific manner. And
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Speaker 7: I think it's good that she apologized, and I hope
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Speaker 7: it's a lesson to other journalists not to say anything
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Speaker 7: so phenomenally stupid.
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Speaker 3: Well, they're hope, but I doubted. We've also seen Anthony
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Speaker 3: Blinkin and Joe Biden try to take credit for this deal.
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Speaker 3: How ludicrous, Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Frankly embarrassing for the leaders of the UK, Australia, Canada
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Speaker 7: trying to take credit for ending this war with what
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Speaker 7: is let's remember and Israeli victory. They did everything they could,
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Speaker 7: every step of the way to force Israel to end
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Speaker 7: the war with Hamas still in power and abandoning hostages
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Speaker 7: inside Gaza. That recognition of a non existent Palestinian state
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Speaker 7: that empowered and emboldened Hamas at a critical moment. Do
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Speaker 7: you know why this war ended when it did. It's
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Speaker 7: because Hamas's state sponsors, Cutter, Turkey and Egypt finally put
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Speaker 7: their foot down and told Hamas that they had to
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Speaker 7: accept President Trump's plan to end the war or they
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Speaker 7: would be alone. As Israel continued with its plans to
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Speaker 7: conquer Gaza City, they empowered Hamas at just the moment
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Speaker 7: that the countries that were openly supporting Hamas finally started
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Speaker 7: putting pressure on it. So I hope there's some introspection
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Speaker 7: in Canberra, in London, in Ottawa as well as they
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Speaker 7: think after this war, how do we really help their
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Speaker 7: ally Israel to protect its security? How do you really
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Speaker 7: make Hamas implement this deal because this is far from over,
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Speaker 7: and how do we stop giving terrorists for first incentives
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Speaker 7: to keep fighting.
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Speaker 3: M We've just got a minute left a bit. The
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Speaker 3: challenge of Hamas demilitarizing, which is central to phase two,
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Speaker 3: is this all but impossible?
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Speaker 7: Well, phase one is not over because Hamas is refusing
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Speaker 7: to give back all the hostages of the bodies or
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Speaker 7: the bodies of the hostages it murdered in captivity. That's
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Speaker 7: a violation of the deal and it needs to free
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Speaker 7: them now. But Hamas must be disarmed and it must
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Speaker 7: be demilitarized. The destruction of Hamas's tunnels, that's an integral
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Speaker 7: part of the agreement that the whole world has now
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Speaker 7: signed up to.
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Speaker 1: Shari As ready as.
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Speaker 7: A euphoric because the war is over, but we want
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Speaker 7: this to be the last guzz of war. We don't
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Speaker 7: want the next guzz of war, but there will be
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Speaker 7: if Hamas Gaza is allowed to keep its tunnels and
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Speaker 7: its weapons. It needs to be demilitarized. It's time for
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Speaker 7: the Middle East to move forward towards peace.
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Speaker 3: Well said Elon, thank you so much. And I noticed
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Speaker 3: by the way that President Trump gave you a call
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Speaker 3: out on his social media a few days ago because
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Speaker 3: of your clear minded commentaries. That was good to see
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Speaker 3: Elon Leavy, thanks so much.
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Speaker 7: Trump was watching on Fox and Friends. Baby, He's watching
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Speaker 7: Sharry on Sky News too.
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Speaker 3: Let's hope, Let's hope. All right, that's all we have
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Speaker 3: time for tonight. I'll see you again tomorrow at eight
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Speaker 3: thirty pm after Tony Abbott's documentary. Have a wonderful evening.
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Speaker 3: It's been a good day. Enjoy it, breathe it in.
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Speaker 3: And right now, here's Paul Murray.