Back to episode — Episode 2932 CWSA 08/19/25
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we've had more progress toward ending this war than in the past three and a half years. Now, I would debate whether there's progress because the only thing that matters is who gets what land and that's nowhere near settled. So, the fact that it's not settled and it doesn't look like it will be, I'm not really sure there's any progress. But if they all feel like there's progress, this adds to that…
← Previous segment →don't know where I guess that leaves out the European leaders but maybe they won't mind. I don't know. So that's coming. Trilateral. You're going to hear that word a lot. Trilateral.
Well, Hamas has accepted a Gaza ceasefire proposal from a bunch of Arab mediators. So, that's good news, right? No, because there's no chance that Israel is going to accept it. So, Israel is not thinking about a ceasefire. They're thinking about relocating hundreds of thousands of people and controlling the 25% of Gaza that they have not yet completely controlled. So their take is that we want all the hostages back, but we're not going to do this ceasefire thing anymore. That's what it looks like. It looks like Israel's just decided they're going to end this even at the expense of their hostages. They won't say that out loud, of course, but i
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t does look to me like they're not going to save hostages if it would slow them down from completely depopulating and having command and control over Gaza forever. So I think the larger, you know I'm not in their heads so I can't read their minds but it does look like the larger goal is complete control of Gaza even if it's not the ideal situation for getting back hostages but anyway I wouldn't ex…
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