Helen Walters

Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of TED explains the world with geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer. I'm Helen Walters from TED. Today is October the 6th, 2025 and this week sees the second anniversary of Hamas's horrific attack on Israel and Israel's devastating response.

Last week President Trump of the United States announced a 20-point plan to end the conflict, a deal that was accepted by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, and Hamas has also said that it accepts parts of the ceasefire and hostage release plan and is ready to negotiate the rest. So the question on everyone's minds, might this actually be a turning point towards peace? So Ian, let's bring you in, let's get right to it. What do you think are the chances that this works?

So obviously there is so much going on behind the scenes at the moment. And I just wonder if you might let us in on a little bit of those conversations. What are you hearing? What is happening? Who's talking to whom? And what are the next things that are going to happen? Well, the most important things that have happened

Se tekee heitä erittäin vaarallisena, kuten tuntuu, ja tuntuu, että kaikki tämä voisi pysyä läpi. Mutta kuka näet, jos Hamas... Jos Hamas sopii pysyä. Kuka aloittaa palestiinalaisen vallan? Jos Hamas itse asiassa ristiriitaa.

But isn't it fair to say that, so they're calling it the board of peace, I believe, and just to flag that the governance that you describe, if it's led by Tony Blair, who's a Brit, it's supported by the American, it seems to be a technocratic organization, as you say, but basically not run by people from the region that is

that is actually being affected by all of the decisions that they make. We've seen this happen before. We've seen this happen before and it not go well. So how is it possible, or do you think it's possible, that in any way actually including Palestinians from the start, why is that not just a kind of a base level condition for any of this? Well, I think because everyone can't agree on who the initial leader is going to be.

Mutta olen mielenkiintoinen, ehkä en ole niin pessimistinen kuin sinä tai ehkä en tiedä tarpeeksi, mutta minua yllätti se, että palestiinalainen valtio oli kuvattu 20-painopuolella. Kyseessä ei tietenkään ole mitään tavaroita, mutta mikä on vaihtoehto palestiinalaisuuteen?

Palestiinalaisille palestiinalaisen maailman maailmanmuutoksen tilanne on kuitenkin käsitellyt melko huonosti. Palestiinalaisille palestiinalaisille palestiinalaisille palestiinalaisille palestiinalaisille palestiinalaisille palestiinalaisille palestiinalaisille palestiinalaisille palestiinalaisille palestiinalaisille palestiinalaisille palestiinalaisille

Kiitos paljon, että kuuntelit tuon puhelun. Se on erinomainen näkökulma. Olen miettinyt, mitä Netanyahu tekee seuraavaksi? Mitä tapahtuu hänelle? Tiedän, että israelilaisyhteisössä on monia pakkoja, jotka vahvistavat hänet eri puolilla. Mitä luulet, mitä hän tekee nyt?

What would you say would be the timeline for this? Trump had said he wanted an answer within three days, I think, when he issued the plan. We're past that. Just give us a sense of what kind of timing we should be looking at throughout. Usually two weeks is Trump's preferred timeline, of course.

All right. Well, we hear that. We hope it doesn't blow up and that peace becomes reality. We are so grateful to you, Ian, for giving us your candid idea and take on what is happening and explaining what we should be looking for. I'm sure we'll be back here again soon. But for now, thank you so much for your time and have a lovely day. Great to see you, Helen.

Akilah, another hug, if you will.

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I have a question.

Thank you for sharing your story.

I speak on behalf of everybody when I say that we're so sorry for your loss.

We talked a lot this week about actionable hope.

What you're doing exemplifies a spirit that too many of us have no idea what you've experienced and what you do on a daily basis.

What advice do you give those who are trying to dig deep in this time to step up and to find actionable hope?

How do you do it?