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Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 1: Always cool to see the Cobalt Show kids, you know, Eric,

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Speaker 1: Deborah old Crewe nikis here. We'll get to a lot

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Speaker 1: of stuff today, and there's much going on in the world.

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Speaker 1: I want to get first to something that really is

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Speaker 1: remarkable in the conversation around international events. One has to

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Speaker 1: look at what happened in Iran as a result of

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Speaker 1: Israeli and American cooperation, and that same cooperation may apply

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Speaker 1: to what may happen with a solution toward Gaza and

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Speaker 1: the inhumanity and the remarkable continuing two years now into

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Speaker 1: that conflict of all of the both military efforts on

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Speaker 1: the part of Israel and also the pushback on the

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Speaker 1: part of Hamas. But what has changed is both the

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Speaker 1: time and now the efforts of the American President Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump to try to affect some kind of peace deal.

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Speaker 1: Whether US now is Georgiana Miller from ABC and Geordana

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Speaker 1: what is I guess President Trump has his site set

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Speaker 1: on ending this war in Gaza.

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Speaker 3: He does, and I think he's been saying that for

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Speaker 3: you know, the last couple months but after what the

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Speaker 3: Israelis called a decisive victory over Iran, those calls by

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Speaker 3: the president are growing, you know, more urgent and more public.

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Speaker 3: And we know that the Israeli Prime Minister is working

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Speaker 3: on setting a date to come to Washington. It's likely

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Speaker 3: going to be early next week, and topping the agenda

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Speaker 3: will be how to wrap up the war in Gaza

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Speaker 3: as well as you know, post Iran.

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Speaker 4: Talk after not only the devastating military defeat that Israel delivered,

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Speaker 4: Uh and then talking about expanding the Abraham Accords. Those

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Speaker 4: are the peace accords that President Trump uh signed in

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Speaker 5: Term as president right at the end there that.

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Speaker 4: Brought normalization deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates

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Speaker 4: as well as Bahrain, Morocco. Well, there are other countries

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Speaker 4: now that are are interested in that have long been interested.

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Speaker 5: In joining the Abraham Accords.

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Speaker 4: And the you know, the defeat uh in of Iran,

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Speaker 4: the successful attack of their nuclear program and their missile

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Speaker 4: program has only moved that, you know, process of normalizing ties,

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Speaker 4: which in Israel and its neighbors it has expedited or

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Speaker 4: accelerated that process. And remember we know now that one

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Speaker 4: of the reasons Hamas struck on October seventh with that

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Speaker 4: very deadly attack back in twenty twenty three was one

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Speaker 4: of the aims was to derail the normalization talks that

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Speaker 4: were quite advanced between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

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Speaker 1: I was just about to make that point. I'm so

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Speaker 1: glad you make it, because it's sort of ironic, isn't

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Speaker 1: that that this entire thing, the October seventh attack and

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Speaker 1: all that's followed, was really probably tripped off from that

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Speaker 1: which you're talking about, right.

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Speaker 4: I mean, that was one of the that's one of

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Speaker 4: the one of the main reasons that Hamas decided to strike.

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Speaker 5: When it did, right, Hamas was always going to plan

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Speaker 5: some deadly strike on Israel, but that was one of

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Speaker 4: So, you know, here we are almost two years later,

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Speaker 4: Hamas has been largely defeated, has Bala has.

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Speaker 4: Weakened and turned out to be somewhat of a paper tiger.

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Speaker 5: And so this is a really ripe moment to wrap

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Speaker 4: Advancing and widening the Abraham Accords, which would be you know, it'd.

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Speaker 1: Be a win for Israel, would you think, Jordana, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a win for Israel in the West exactly.

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Speaker 4: Israel there was also very aggressive taking the Goal on Heights,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Iranian proxies now are gone. Yeah. This is

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Speaker 1: it's a different serial and it's an opportunity to reorder

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Speaker 5: It is this is a kind of tectonic shift, if

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Speaker 4: On October seventh, and it did bring some ruin, if

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Speaker 4: It is and quickly, after twelve days of really intense

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Speaker 5: To the gods of war. I mean, there were tens

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Speaker 4: Of people out over the weekend again calling for the

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Speaker 4: The hostage crisis here is like a festering wound, really,

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Speaker 4: and until those fifty hostages are back, and remember only

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Speaker 4: twenty of them are believed to be alive.

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Speaker 5: The other thirty are bodies. And within that group of

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Speaker 4: Two Americans, two young Americans that deserve.

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Speaker 5: To be uh, deserve a burial like the others. So

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Speaker 5: you know, Israel wants to see all of them out

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Speaker 4: And there is fear that even the intensified military operation

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Speaker 4: the hostages. So the families are extremely I mean, at

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Speaker 4: this point there, I'm not even sure there are words

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Speaker 5: And now, yeah, I.

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Speaker 1: Also would say just to it trauma and that pain

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Speaker 1: and trauma informs politically and and Yahoo and these ongoing discussions.

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Speaker 1: But nonetheless it may represent an opportunity this moment in time.

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Speaker 1: GEORGANA Miller from ABC, thank you so much for spending

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Speaker 1: a moment with us on the Call Belt Show.

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Speaker 5: Appreciate it, Thank you, Texan.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, talk soon. That's a developing story for sure. Much

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Speaker 1: I just want to mention, because it is going on

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Speaker 1: because that looks like that's been nixed from the bill,

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Speaker 1: There were as I say, there were Republicans, four of

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Speaker 1: And I also think the moderates really vote in big

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Speaker 1: just think that even though there may be a reputation

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Speaker 1: in the valley on the West Side, they're not looking

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Speaker 1: it happening. I mean, technically, could a progressive candidate like

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Speaker 1: Mandami win here in Los Angeles, I guess, especially with

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Speaker 1: a powerful message, But you'd need a powerful message on

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Speaker 1: all those things I mentioned, housing, economic justice, public safety,

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. If you've got a real message, not

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Speaker 1: real hef behind it, it's possible, but I see it

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Speaker 1: as extremely unlikely. When we come back the update on

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Speaker 1: Idaho and those firefighters, they've id'd the dude who ambushed

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Speaker 1: those firefighters. That and the Sean Combs trial as well.

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