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What are your thoughts about this?
What Netanyahu is telling the people in Israel in Hebrew versus President Trump's mindset about this?
Well, Netanyahu stated early on and has consistently said that there are dual goals.
One is to release the hostages, and secondly is to disarm and dismantle Hamas and make sure that Gaza is no longer a threat to Israel.
Now, this came about because Israel had the foolish idea that by turning over Gaza to the PLO, to terrorist groups, that peace would break out back in 2006, and they were woefully wrong.
Now Israel has said, okay, we were getting the hostages back, but I think that Hamas has no intention of disarming.
I think Hamas is looking to do the Hezbollah model in Lebanon.
Hamas doesn't want to govern anymore.
They don't want to be in charge of governing.
But they would like to be a heavily armed group that really controls everything and can still threaten Israel.
I don't see any mechanism whatsoever that any international body is going to want to go into Gaza and disarm Hamas.
So Bibi has kind of been cornered a little bit from the situation.
Trump is saying, no, the war is over.
You can't continue.
But Bibi is not giving up on one of his main goals, which is Hamas will be disarmed and dismantled.
So that's one of the conflicts that we're going to see coming out of this celebration is Hamas not going anywhere and the world aligning politically in Sharm el-Sheikh to rebuild Gaza and demand a Palestinian state.
Joe, hang on for a second.
Let's go to Jack Posobiec.
Jack, you've been on many of these trips with the president.
You followed this very closely from the beginning.