00:00Obviously, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington.
00:04I mean, is there anything you're hearing or seeing that suggests that progress is being made to bringing an end to 21 months of warfare in Gaza?
00:16Look, Tom, the fact that you have a proposal on the table,
00:21the fact that you have representatives of both parties back in, it seems, some kind of proximity talks.
00:31Those things we know. Other things are more speculative.
00:34Will Envoy Wyckoff be visiting the region?
00:39Will there be an announcement while Netanyahu is still in D.C.?
00:43He has still some days to go. He's staying till almost the end of the working week.
00:48And I think more crucially, perhaps, it seems that Netanyahu's calculation and wiggle room has shifted somewhat since the so-called 12-day war with Iran.
01:03Netanyahu, let's be very clear, has been the main obstacle.
01:07There's been a deal on the table. Many in the Israeli media are acknowledging that not much has changed.
01:12But some things have changed and the details of the arrangements are going to matter.
01:18Israel's military has now removed the civilian population from about 75 percent of the area of Gaza.
01:27Its military is now across Gaza.
01:29They're going to have to withdraw, redeploy from most of that for a deal to be reached.
01:34And you have this added complication of how aid is delivered.
01:38Aid is traditionally delivered according to humanitarian principles
01:42and by UN and other international agencies who know how to do this.
01:46What Israel has insisted upon since it began its most recent version of a full starvation siege
01:54as part of its genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza is to introduce a new formula for aid delivery,
02:02an organization with no history, no track record, and which has, it seems in some respects,
02:07intentionally turned aid distribution sites into killing fields.
02:11This Gaza humanitarian foundation operating in only a few places as part of the effort to physically kettle Palestinians closer to the Egyptian border.
02:20So the withdrawal of that horrific experiment and its replacement with traditional, more effective, non-murderous forms of aid are going to have to be part of this.
02:33In other words, is there an opportunity? Yes, details will matter.
02:37Unfortunately, and this is crucial, Tom, we are still talking about what seems to be a temporary rather than permanent ceasefire
