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Now, presumably, the body that would take up this kind of challenge is the UN.
But Trump, meanwhile, is seeking to replace that with the Board of Peace, which is having its inaugural meeting on Thursday, right in time for Ramadan.
I want to bring in Gaza here too, because in Gaza, we've seen just, I'd say violations of the ceasefire from Israel repeatedly, but it's not even really a ceasefire if you're just allowed to periodically bomb Gaza and kill hundreds of people now.
Hamas has also said that they're not going to disarm in these circumstances.
Netanyahu said over the weekend that Israel would
refused to move to the next phase of the ceasefire without that disarmament.
Netanyahu's cabinet secretary has said on Monday that the Trump administration has asked for a 60-day grace period for Hamas to disarm.
And if they fail to do so, then he says, quote, the IDF will have to complete the mission.
I'm not sure what the mission is other than kind of the complete further destruction of Gaza.
So it doesn't feel like the whole peace plan is going well.
We have this meeting of the Board of Peace today.
I want to just throw one more thing into this mix, Amen, which is there's one man who's very excited about what's happening over there, and that's Lindsey Graham.
He made another trip to Israel.
He seems to go there more than South Carolina.
He's very excited about all the wars that could be upcoming.
I want to play a clip here from Lindsey Graham.
So the wars of the future being planned in Israel.
Yeah.
I mean, he's just could barely contain his excitement.
I mean, you've covered Gaza just as well as any journalist over the last 15 years.