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with the food because it won't be regulated, but it's coming right from the farm and we'll give you all the information you want about the farm, but it's up to the farm. And we're going to hold the farm possibly blameless even if somebody gets sick from the food." So you'd have to handle sort of the insurance risk of providing food to people and a government could just say, "Yeah, you can't sue. S…

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terday, I'm not worried about the ceasefire as long as both sides have dramatically drawn down their military presence. There's definitely going to be violations of the ceasefire. You know, every single person who's been alive more than 10 minutes knows the ceasefire is going to get violated. So you can't say we're going to change everything if the ceasefire gets violated because we know it's going to get violated. There wouldn't be any point even doing the deal if we thought a violation was going to overturn the whole thing. So of course we're going to work through all the little violations, but probably we will. It does make sense that there'll be plenty of people there who don't want a ceasefire and will be acting upon it. But as long as they get the big weapons out of there.

I guess Jared was talking about maybe a gun buyback program. And what was your first impression when you heard that they would do a gun buyback program with Hamas? Your first impression is no, right? That's not going to work. They're not going to sell their guns. My second impression was we don't really know the depth of their poverty right now. So if you were Hamas and you owned a gun and the government offered you what was a really

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good price, a really good price, and you had no source of other money and you also thought that the war was over, I think maybe half of them would sell their guns because money is better than a bunch of bullets you're not going to use. Right. So I do like the buyback idea, but I think it's only a dent. You can't get all the guns with that. But if you got half of them, that'd be pretty impressive.…

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