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Speaker 1: So what happened last night is remarkable. Before the deadline

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Speaker 1: of ten o'clock New Zealand time, twenty living Israeli hostages

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Speaker 1: who had been held for two years, who had been

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Speaker 1: forced in some cases to dig their own graves, spend

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Speaker 1: unknown lengths of time in tunnels underground, and go without

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Speaker 1: much in the way of sustenance. At times, twenty living

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Speaker 1: Israeli hostages were handed over by their captors back into

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Speaker 1: the care of Israel, which is their home. That is

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Speaker 1: remarkable because, I mean, let's be honest about it. In

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Speaker 1: the last time, in the last two years, there were

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Speaker 1: times where surely we started to believe that we'd seen

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Speaker 1: the last of the survivors make it out. Surely we'd

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Speaker 1: assumed most, if not all, the remaining twenty would die

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Speaker 1: in captivity in the years that we may have thought

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Speaker 1: stretched ahead of us. But look at what's happened. Eight

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Speaker 1: is now flowing back into Gaza. People are going back

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Speaker 1: to their homes, whatever is left of it. The sholling

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Speaker 1: has stopped. So you would think this would be a

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Speaker 1: moment to celebrate, don't you, The very thing that so

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Speaker 1: many of us have been calling for for such a

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Speaker 1: long time, and increasingly in the last few months. The

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Speaker 1: thing has happened, for fighting has stopped, the starvation has stopped.

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Speaker 1: But where is the celebration. I mean, don't you think

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Speaker 1: is remarkably muted today? Now I realize a lot of

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Speaker 1: that will be that there is some weariness, quite rightly,

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Speaker 1: over whether this piece can hold, because so many ceasefires

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Speaker 1: have broken down in the past, and there are so

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Speaker 1: many ways that this ceasefire can break down. Could be

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Speaker 1: a rocket fire, an error, could be Hamas still refusing

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Speaker 1: to discidn could be anything. But I do wonder if

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Speaker 1: part of it is also because it's hard for some

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Speaker 1: people to give credit to Donald Trump for the role

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Speaker 1: that he planned in this. I mean, already there are

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Speaker 1: opinion pieces that are writing him out of this historic moment,

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Speaker 1: talking up the diplomat diplomatic efforts of others, particularly in

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Speaker 1: the Middle East, warning he will never get a Nobel

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Speaker 1: Peace Prize for this, regardless of whether this piece holds.

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Speaker 1: But you can't ignore his role in this. You can't

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Speaker 1: write him out of this. He was instrumental in a

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Speaker 1: way that Biden never was, and it was for various reasons,

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Speaker 1: mainly because of his friendship with Benjamin Nett and Yahoo,

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Speaker 1: which Biden never had, but also because of his relationship

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Speaker 1: with the Arab countries, because of previous work in the

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Speaker 1: region in his first administration, like the Abraham Accords. Now,

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Speaker 1: let's be fair, it's always hard to give credit to

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Speaker 1: people we dislike. It's also very hard to give credit

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Speaker 1: to people who are so capable of dishing out copious

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Speaker 1: amounts of credit to themselves, like Donald Trump. But Trump

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Speaker 1: does deserve credit, and he deserves a lot of it

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Speaker 1: for getting the gars of conflict to a point that

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Speaker 1: it has never been before, which is that all the

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Speaker 1: living hostages are out.

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