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Hamas says it agrees to parts of Trump's Gaza peace proposal · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: All right, breaky News. Hamas releasing a statement just moments
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  Speaker 1: ago in response to President Trump's proposal seeking to end
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  Speaker 1: the war in Gaza. Let's bring in CBS News Senior
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  Speaker 1: White House correspondent At O'Keeffe outside at the CBS News
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  Speaker 1: broadcast center. There ed, what can you tell us about
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  Speaker 1: this statement from Hamas well?
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  Speaker 2: CBS News has learned, Elizabeth that re sources knowledgeable with
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  Speaker 2: the talks tell us that Hamas has accepted and is
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  Speaker 2: ready to enter into further negotiations to discuss the twenty
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  Speaker 2: point proposal that was put forth by the White House
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  Speaker 2: earlier this week that was accepted by the Israeli Prime
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  Speaker 2: Minister Benjamin and Yahoo. They said, in part in a statement,
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  Speaker 2: out of concern to stop the aggression and the genocidal
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  Speaker 2: war being waged against our steadfast people in the Gaza
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  Speaker 2: strip and stemming from our national responsibility and essence, Hamas
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  Speaker 2: is ready to talk. So that would appear if it's
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  Speaker 2: interpreted as such by the White House to stave off
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  Speaker 2: the threats that the President made earlier today. In the least,
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  Speaker 2: the social media space saying that Hamas had until six
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  Speaker 2: pm Eastern on Sunday to accept the terms of this
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  Speaker 2: or face consequences and all caps saying that there would
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  Speaker 2: be peace in the Middle East one way or the other,
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  Speaker 2: in essence threatening them with further military action by Israel,
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  Speaker 2: or perhaps even something more. White House officials had cautioned
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  Speaker 2: that that was in essence just reiterating what the President
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  Speaker 2: had said earlier this week, which was that if Israel
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  Speaker 2: believes it's got to go in and continue or intensify
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  Speaker 2: its military operations, they'd have the President's support to do so.
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  Speaker 2: But now with tonight's statement tonight Middle East time, and
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  Speaker 2: then this afternoon here in the United States, a single
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  Speaker 2: that perhaps talks could very well begin in earnest soon
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  Speaker 2: unclear who when, over what specifically, because all twenty of
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  Speaker 2: those points were quite complex and could take days off
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  Speaker 2: nott weeks to sort out each individually on the path
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  Speaker 2: of the piece.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, those twenty points were complex, and I want to
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  Speaker 1: ask you ed if you could just sum up some
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  Speaker 1: of the biggest points made on that proposal from President
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump to negotiating table between these two.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, among other things, it was the idea that
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  Speaker 2: members of Hamas would renounce their membership in the group,
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  Speaker 2: leave their weapons behind, and be given safe passages to
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  Speaker 2: other countries. There was stuff like or key details, including
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  Speaker 2: a sort of provisional government or entity that would run
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  Speaker 2: the Gaza strip for a while while the Palestinian authority
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  Speaker 2: reconstituted itself. There would be this so called Board of Peace.
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  Speaker 2: They would be co chaired by President Trump and other
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  Speaker 2: world leaders, including the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair,
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  Speaker 2: to oversee the reconstruction not only physically of Gaza, but
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  Speaker 2: of its political structure. And there would of course, perhaps
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  Speaker 2: most critically and most immediately be in exchange of the hostages,
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  Speaker 2: the handful that are still alive, the bodies of those
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  Speaker 2: believe dead. And then Israel would in turn hand over
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  Speaker 2: hundreds of prisoners that have been taken since October seventh
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  Speaker 2: in exchange. So that's the key, critical first piece. And
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  Speaker 2: then conceivably talks would continue, and you would also begin
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  Speaker 2: to see the withdrawal of Israeli defense forces from Gaza.
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  Speaker 2: So all of it again yet to be determined, subject
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  Speaker 2: of great negotiation, but Hamas here signaling in the last
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  Speaker 2: few minutes that in fact it is ready to do so,
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  Speaker 2: and that should be seen in Israel and here in Washington.
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  Speaker 2: It's quite an encouraging development. And we'll hear at some point,
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  Speaker 2: probably from the President, whether it's in person or over
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  Speaker 2: social media.
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  Speaker 1: You know. The President ed as you know, has made
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  Speaker 1: it no secret that he intends to be considered for
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  Speaker 1: the Nobel Peace Prize. We know their committee is meeting
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  Speaker 1: in about a week or so. What can you tell
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  Speaker 1: us about the timing of all this.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, you can't self nominate for something like that,
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  Speaker 2: and certainly he has stoked conversation about whether or not
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  Speaker 2: he should be considered for something like that. As you said,
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  Speaker 2: they are meeting soon, and the White House has gone
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  Speaker 2: to great lengths he himself, especially in recent weeks really
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  Speaker 2: since he's really since the summer, to point out that
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  Speaker 2: in their view, he has helped settle seven different inflicts
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  Speaker 2: over the course of his first administration, and this one,
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  Speaker 2: most recently the situation in Africa. There's also the one
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  Speaker 2: between Armenian and Arzerbaijan. There were a handful of other
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  Speaker 2: disputes in his first administration, and so they added up
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  Speaker 2: and say there have been seven in different conflicts that
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  Speaker 2: he's helped settle. This would be yet another one, and
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  Speaker 2: of course the biggest, perhaps most complex, is the one
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  Speaker 2: between Russia and Ukraine. Those are the two he vowed
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  Speaker 2: to settle quickly. He has not been able to do so,
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  Speaker 2: of course, but you know, if indeed talks are set
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  Speaker 2: to begin, you could see a renewed push for him
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  Speaker 2: to be considered for that. If not this year, certainly
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  Speaker 2: next year.
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  Speaker 1: Can you give us some context though, into the recent
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  Speaker 1: conversations between President Trump and bb netan Yahoo over the
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  Speaker 1: past month or so and how we got to this point.
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  Speaker 2: Well, got aaron part because the President had some pretty
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  Speaker 2: significant conversations with leaders of predominantly Arab and Muslim countries
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  Speaker 2: in recent weeks and the lead up to the United Nations,
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  Speaker 2: and while he was at the General Assembly meetings in
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  Speaker 2: New York were they in essence reiterated that they're concerned
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  Speaker 2: about this, they want to see the resolution of it.
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  Speaker 2: Made clear that in their view, Israel cannot occupy the
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  Speaker 2: West Bank, which is a separate location and situation from
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  Speaker 2: the situation in Gaza, and reiterated that the hope of maintaining,
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  Speaker 2: sustaining and expanding the so called Abraham Accords that were
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  Speaker 2: established during his first administration, and that is greater Arab
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  Speaker 2: Israeli cooperation and US engagement in that region where it
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  Speaker 2: would be at risk were this conflict to continue. So,
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  Speaker 2: with all that pressure, and with the President himself upset
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  Speaker 2: with some of the steps that had been taken by
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  Speaker 2: his including targeting Hamas leadership. When they were in Cutter
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  Speaker 2: a few weeks ago for negotiations, Nenya, who came to
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  Speaker 2: the White House on Monday, was handed this list of proposals,
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  Speaker 2: got on the phone with the leader of Cutter and
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  Speaker 2: apologized for that military strike. And then you saw Ntya
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  Speaker 2: who pretty quickly say we are good to go with
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  Speaker 2: this list if Tamas is as well, and we'll see
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  Speaker 2: what we can do. Notably, what that twenty point list
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  Speaker 2: doesn't include is explicit assurances that Israel won't one day
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  Speaker 2: try to overtake An and occupy the West Bank. A
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  Speaker 2: and also unclear what becomes of the Palestinian Authority, which
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  Speaker 2: of course has been there for so long, not really
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  Speaker 2: in charge of this situation in any way, uh, but
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  Speaker 2: arguably a a political entity that could be stood up
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  Speaker 2: to help run a re established and reinvigorated and rebuilt Gaza.
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  Speaker 2: So again all of this subject to conversation, but Netanyahu
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  Speaker 2: was made to understand at least on Monday, if not
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  Speaker 2: before Uh that the President his lead negotiator for this,
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  Speaker 2: Steve Whitcoffe. The administration overall was pretty serious about making
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  Speaker 2: sure that attempts were still being made to get to
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  Speaker 2: a peaceful resolution.
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  Speaker 1: Ed Okaefe with that breaking news. Thanks so much, Ed,