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And Adam's 100% right that there's a great tragedy in the Middle East, not just in Lebanon, but across the Middle East in general, where there's been a decay of all this opportunity.
Tons of natural resources, tons of culture, tons of history.
These are places that tourists would love to visit.
And yet because of extremism, which is a fundamental issue across the board in the region, there's a complete decay of virtually every single country, Lebanon, Gaza.
Sorry, I'll let you go, Tom.
Yeah, victory looks like a complete cultural shift, not just in one region, but across the region.
You see it in UAE.
You see it in a lot of the Gulf states.
They are trying to come back to the table and say there's a way forward where we can integrate with Western societies and see growth in our populations.
You know why?
Because they're putting a priority for growth, prosperity, and the benefit of their people over religion.
Yet in a lot of these other countries and what Iran's motivation is and what Hezbollah's motivation is and Hamas, they've indicated not to only Israel, not to only the entire world, but to their own people, we don't care about you.
Our priority is destruction.
So sometimes if your enemy or if the person you're trying to negotiate with is starting from the fundamental point of I want to destroy you no matter what, it's very hard.
You're asking an impossible question because that's their starting point.
Okay, if you want to run.
I just wanted to say to Vinny also, in terms of being hopeful, when we see a snapshot of something, even though it might be 10 years, 20 years, it feels like forever.
It feels like it's never going to end.
But you do see sustainable relations between Israel and other countries in the Middle East that you would have never believed would have happened.
The fact that there's sustainable peace.