Jeremy Bowen

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Newscast · Is The World Cup For Sale? · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

Second, this is assuming it goes ahead, of course, and that is a massive if, which we'll talk about, obviously.

There's also the fact that, what is the other?

Yeah.

Well, there have been two contentious points that they'd signed up to everything else in terms of things like a new form of governance in the territory, a new kind of technocratic Palestinian administration.

The idea that there would be some...

other measures taken which would enable i mean to be honest none of it if you go back through the original documents there's no detail there so there's a lot that needs to be to be worked out but there were two outstanding points one of which was on disarmament

And that is the most important thing, because that's what stopped any kind of diplomatic progress.

And the other one was essentially about things to do with governance, with the people who are in various roles that they employ at the moment.

I'm talking about civil servants as well, who keep ministries going, such as there are these days.

The thing is that the 30% or so that they control is barely governed in the way that

You know, you can no longer say that this is a mini state led, as you might have been able to before.

You certainly can't now.

Most people are intense, for goodness sake, and dependent on aid.

So those were the two outstanding points.

And the most significant single point is that for the first time, Hamas has agreed to disarm.

Well, of course, these things are all different.

And in some cases, groups get absorbed into the armed forces of a state.

Well, there is no functioning Palestinian state.

Many countries recognize the existence of one, but there's no functioning state.

So it's not that.

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