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Speaker 1: There is celebration in the streets of the Middle East

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Speaker 1: as a Gaza Seaspile dea is taking another step towards

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Speaker 1: being completed. The Israeli Cabinet has now signed off on

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Speaker 1: the deal, which would bring an end to two years

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Speaker 1: of brutal war. Alon Roth, as the Israeli ambassador to

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Speaker 1: New Zealand and with US hirel.

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Speaker 2: On good afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Do we have any clearer idea yet of when the

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Speaker 1: hostages will be out.

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Speaker 2: Here? No, but we know that in seventy two hours

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Speaker 2: they should be out. So I assume if we come

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Speaker 2: from now that on Monday. I mean, I hope that

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Speaker 2: we'll be released as soon as possible, but on Monday,

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Speaker 2: I hope that will be with us at loss.

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Speaker 1: When do we start counting? Is it from now or

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Speaker 1: is it from when Trump signs the bit of paper

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Speaker 1: or from when the paper was signed on his behalf.

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Speaker 2: I think it's from when the decision was taken. You know,

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Speaker 2: there was a commass decision and the Israeli government decision we,

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Speaker 2: for example, begin the immediate redeployment of the Israeli army.

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Speaker 2: The idea right now it's going to take something like

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Speaker 2: twenty four hours, so within twenty four hours. It has

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Speaker 2: to happen. But as you said, the most important thing

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Speaker 2: for us is the hostages, and this I do hope

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Speaker 2: that until Monday we will be it will be behind us,

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Speaker 2: and they will be in Israe Alan.

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Speaker 1: And so your understanding of the sequence of events, is

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Speaker 1: it that the troops, the Israeli troops, withdraw to an

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Speaker 1: agreed place first and then the hostages are released.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it can be. It can be. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's twenty four hours and seventy two hours. It can

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Speaker 2: be in parallel. But they have seventy two hours to

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Speaker 2: release the hostages, and we will be redeploying ourselves in

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Speaker 2: twenty four hours. Well, to say truth, the redeployment, as

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Speaker 2: far as I understand, begins to happen.

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Speaker 1: What do you know about these two hundred troops that

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Speaker 1: Trump is sending US troops he is sending to Israel.

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Speaker 1: Where will they be stationed? What are they going to do?

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Speaker 2: No, this is something that is beyond my mandate and knowledge.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now that pays struck and we were going to

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Speaker 1: work our way through these steps, would you be comfortable

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Speaker 1: with our government recognizing a Palestinian state?

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Speaker 2: Now, I don't think so, and I think we have

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Speaker 2: people have to read the Trump Plan. Trumplin is saying

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Speaker 2: very clearly that first and foremost, the PA, the person authority,

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Speaker 2: should reform itself, should stop program like pay for a

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Speaker 2: slave that they're paying for the terrorists, are incitement in

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Speaker 2: the education system, recognizing as well as the Jewish state,

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Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera. There are lots of conditions before

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Speaker 2: the discussion is going to begin, if at all. So,

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Speaker 2: I think that the decision that was taken by the

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Speaker 2: New Zealand government was the right one and I don't

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Speaker 2: see any reason to change it now.

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Speaker 1: Alan, thanks for your time. I appreciated alone Roth Israeli

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