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Speaker 1: So Nittnya, who's now talking about talks over Lebanon, Iran

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Speaker 1: says the strait is going to stay closed and we

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Speaker 1: will only reopen it if the US backs off their

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Speaker 1: quote aggression.

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Speaker 2: You cannot have a check and eat it. At the

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Speaker 2: same time, that was the message that Roon send quite clearly,

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Speaker 2: crystal clearly, to Washington and to the Oral Office last night.

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Speaker 1: Alexander Cormeill with US Reutter's senior Middle East correspondent in Jerusalem. Alexander,

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Speaker 1: nice to have you back on the show, thanks to

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Speaker 1: being with me. What about Nitta Yahoo, what's the game

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Speaker 1: plan here do you think.

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Speaker 2: To try? I mean, the announcement comes just, you know,

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Speaker 2: a day after those huge strikes on Lebanon that has

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Speaker 2: now killed more than three hundred people. We don't have

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Speaker 2: an official date for these talks that will take place

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Speaker 2: with the Lebanese now. One thing to keep in mind

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Speaker 2: is that Lebanon, for the past month, the Lebanese government

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Speaker 2: has been pushing for direct talks with Israel and Natanya,

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Speaker 2: who had rebuffed him this whole time. One thing also

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Speaker 2: to consider is that the US Vice President yesterday and

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Speaker 2: Budapest said that Israel had sort of decided to check themselves,

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Speaker 2: as the way he phrased it, after those strikes in Lebanon.

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Speaker 2: So we'll have to wait and see when and if

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Speaker 2: those talks will happen. Iran has been adamant that the

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Speaker 2: ceasefire also include Lebanon, and we've also seen a number

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Speaker 2: of European states come out to say and say Lebanon

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Speaker 2: must be included in the ceasefire as well.

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Speaker 1: Ntnya, who's wanted for a long time the Lebanese government

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Speaker 1: to go after his Bulla themselves, is there any chance

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Speaker 1: of that happening.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the Lebanese government and the Lebanese Armed Forces

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Speaker 2: were supposed to do that following a twenty twenty four

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Speaker 2: agreement that was essentially a ceasefire between Hesbla and Israel,

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Speaker 2: and the armed forces said that they the Lebanese Armed

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Speaker 2: Forces said they did take over areas of the south. However,

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Speaker 2: you know, we did see Hesba open fire in March

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Speaker 2: following the attacks on Iran against Israel, so it's it's

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Speaker 2: very unclear what capabilities they have. The Lebanese army had

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Speaker 2: been withdrawing from some areas of Lebanon as the Israeli

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Speaker 2: military advance and continued its bombardment. So it's you know,

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Speaker 2: if these talks happen with these a big ifs, it's

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Speaker 2: you know, there's going to be some kind of mechanism here,

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Speaker 2: some kind of guarantee that probably has to come from

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Speaker 2: outside of Lebanon and outside of Israel, possibly the United States,

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Speaker 2: possibly the French or always keen to play a role

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Speaker 2: in Lebanon.

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Speaker 1: And as terms of why nitnya who's now saying let's

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Speaker 1: talk about talks, it's pressure from the US, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: I was looking at poles that were polling Republican voters

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Speaker 1: on their support for Israel and its many wars, and

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Speaker 1: that has been slowly dropping through Iran.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, well again we saw these huge coordinated

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Speaker 2: strikes by Israel. Yes, say these strikes. Now, Israel has

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Speaker 2: traditionally targeted areas of southern Lebanon, of southern beaut areas

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Speaker 2: that are Shia Muslim areas where known to have a presence,

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Speaker 2: that are strongholds. Many of the areas that attacked us

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Speaker 2: they were in mixed religious areas, so Sunni, Muslim and

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Speaker 2: Christian areas that many Lebanese had thought were safe and

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Speaker 2: away from Hesbela and the toll the scale attacks has

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Speaker 2: really panicked many this everyday people in Lebanon. Over a

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Speaker 2: million people in Lebanon are displaced by have been displaced

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Speaker 2: by the Israeli military. Over a thousand people have been

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Speaker 2: killed before yesterday's attacks, and Iran has said this ceasefire

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Speaker 2: includes Lebanon and that there's no point having negotiations with

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Speaker 2: the Americans if it's not so. There has been some

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Speaker 2: question here as to whether the ceasefire the American arrange

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Speaker 2: seas I would even hold and if those Israeli strikes

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Speaker 2: as they had, jeopardized the whole truth.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate your time and Jore analysis. Alexander Cornwell Reutter has

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Speaker 1: seen the Middle East Correspondent.

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