Jon Ossoff
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No, I mean, it's, it's just deny, deny, deny.
Um, and I, you know, it, it really saddens me to say it, but I think that there are some folks in this administration and at this white house who, um,
relish the brutality of the system they're creating.
No, there is to date zero pressure.
And the reality is that the slow motion annexation of the West Bank
has been the Likud and Netanyahu policy ongoing now for many, many years.
I mean, it is like a work in progress.
So, you know, I suppose that is a welcome statement, but I am pretty skeptical that it'll be met with any kind of policy.
One thing I do want to say about this while we're on the subject, and since we've been talking about the role of the press, is...
International media have been launching yet another push to call for access for journalists to Gaza.
And I just want to lend my voice and support to that effort.
I've seen personally through the work that I've helped lead and produce how essential it is to have independent journalism in places where there's armed conflict.
to hold warring parties to account where there are serious human rights abuses.
And the continued exclusion of journalists from Gaza is completely unacceptable.
And I want to state unequivocally my support for that call and once again call on the Israeli government to permit journalists to access that area.
Well, I think that events have proven it to be the wrong decision.
I mean, I was not in the room, um, but I think it's clear that he wasn't up for it.
And by the time the decision was made to make a change, it was very, very late in the game.
I think that like the the