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Speaker 2: Yea, let's get to the latest on the Middle East.

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Speaker 2: This morning, the Justice Department charging six senior Hamas leaders

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Speaker 2: with terrorism and conspiracy to kill Americans, days after six

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Speaker 2: hostages were killed in Gaza. The charges including counseling to

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Speaker 2: the groups October seventh sold on Israel, as well as

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Speaker 2: a string of other attacks going back more than a decade.

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Speaker 2: The Attorney General Merrick Garland, citing the death of a

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Speaker 2: twenty three year old it's re any American in his statement,

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Speaker 2: joining us now to discuss the state of this war

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Speaker 2: and the future. Is Ron Dermer, Israel's Minister of Strategic Affairs, Minister,

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Speaker 2: welcome back to the program Sir. I think we're all

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Speaker 2: very very focused on where we are in truce talks,

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Speaker 2: and we'd like to start the conversation there if we can.

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Speaker 2: This came out from the Times of Israel just reporting

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Speaker 2: just moments ago that the Prime Minister Netanya, who sent

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Speaker 2: PM that Israel is still prepared to fully withdraw from

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Speaker 2: the corridor between Egypt and guard in a deal with

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Speaker 2: second phase. Could you confirm this morning, Forest Minister, whether

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Speaker 2: that reporting is accurate or not.

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Speaker 1: No, I think just to explain to your viewers what

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Speaker 1: we're talking about, because there's been so much misreporting and

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Speaker 1: half reporting. Understand that Israel currently occupies this corridor which

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Speaker 1: is between Egypt and Gaza, and that corridor, when it

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Speaker 1: other borders actually are with Israel, and so the arms

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Speaker 1: did not come from Israel. They came through that border,

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Speaker 1: and Israel took over the Philadelphia Corrider in the last

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Speaker 1: into Hamas the deal that is proposed on the table

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Speaker 1: phase one of that deal. Israel has made clear, and

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Speaker 1: the Prime Minister made clear in a televised press conference

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Speaker 1: not going to withdraw from that line. We won't withdraw

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Speaker 1: this steal. What it calls for, Jonathan is to have

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Speaker 1: long term security arrangements on the Philadelphia quarters. So I

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Speaker 1: think that report is a little bit misleading, thinking that

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Speaker 1: is true that Israel's committed to actually negotiating this steal.

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Speaker 1: We've been committed from the beginning. When the President put

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Speaker 1: the US put forward a final bridging proposal, which they

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Speaker 1: frankly a Jonathan for the last several weeks an escalation

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Speaker 2: As you know, we're very focused on acuracy here at Bloomberg.

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Speaker 2: So you said that rapport with slightly misleading. Can we

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Speaker 2: you could you confirm whether in a second phase Natangna,

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Speaker 2: Because we have minister is an obvious question. If I

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Speaker 2: just quickly. If you can trust Egypt to mediate the talks.

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Speaker 2: I need to follow up on one other aspect of this,

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Speaker 1: It's not true. There are many other aspects to this

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Speaker 3: Minister, can we go back to this Phase one agreement?

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Speaker 1: then during that temporary cease fire, we're going to have

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Speaker 1: We're willing to negotiate all of that, and we're willing

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Speaker 1: to get into that first stage of the deal, Tamas

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Speaker 1: made that change. I don't know if they still actually

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Speaker 1: the US is trying to do that. I will tell

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Speaker 1: you that the Justice Department's decision yesterday was a very

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Speaker 1: good decision to put pressure on Flamas. Hopefully the other

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Speaker 1: people internationally and regionally will put as much pressure on

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Speaker 1: Flamas as possible because Israel's government wants to get to

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Speaker 1: a deal. What we're not willing to do is go

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Speaker 1: and we hope we can get there as soon as possible.

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Speaker 3: The minister, you're saying you want to get to a deal,

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Speaker 3: but just this morning your National Security Minister Ben vere

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Speaker 1: That's not the position of the government of Israel or

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Speaker 1: the Prime Minister. As I've told you, we have different

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Speaker 1: encourages people to say exactly what they think in all

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Speaker 1: these meetings. But then you come to a vote and

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Speaker 1: the Prime Minister's position, which is, we're willing to get

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Speaker 1: to a deal. We want to get to a deal.

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Speaker 1: We have red lines that we have to keep, but

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Speaker 1: we want to get to that deal to bring those

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Speaker 1: there were two hundred and fifty hostages that were taken.

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Speaker 1: We've succeeded in bringing one hundred and fifty hostages back.

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Speaker 1: One hundred and ten of them or so have been alive.

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Speaker 1: And I tell you that the murder, the execution of

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Speaker 1: these six hostages was gut wrenching for all the people

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Speaker 1: And you probably may have had them on the show

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Speaker 1: Rachel and John Goldger poland what they have done in

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Speaker 1: raising awareness about the plight of the hostages in their

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Speaker 1: are angry, and I can understand that. I think that

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Speaker 1: the anger has to be directed against Hamas in order

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Speaker 1: for us to get to a deal. And yes, there

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Speaker 1: will be people who will vote against the deal. I

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Speaker 1: against the deal, but the overwhelming majority backs of the

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Speaker 2: I'm going to say you've been very generous with your time.

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Speaker 2: Before we let you go, just a quick question. Will

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Speaker 2: the Prime minist to be attended in the UN General

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Speaker 1: I believe he will, But you know, with what happens

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Speaker 1: in our region in the Middle East, you'd never know.

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Speaker 1: I think he intends to go there, and hopefully we

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Speaker 1: can make that happen and he'll have a chin. It's

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Speaker 1: just as he addressed the American people in the Congress

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Speaker 1: a couple of months ago. Have a chance to address

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Speaker 1: the world about how we move forward in this region

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Speaker 1: and how we can move from this catastrophe that happened

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Speaker 1: on October seventh, to move towards a different future for Israelis,

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Speaker 1: for Palestinians, and for everyone in the region.

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Speaker 2: Place like the Prime Minister and no, we would love

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Speaker 2: the opportunity to sit down with him later on this month.

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Speaker 2: Sir Minister, thank you very much for your time Runtown

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Speaker 2: with Daddy is around. Minister A Strategic Affairs