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Learn more at NEIacademy.org. And as Nick mentioned, we spoke earlier today with Israel's ambassador

to the U.S. Yekiel or Michael Leiter. And I asked him, why now? What changed politically,

militarily, or diplomatically to make this agreement acceptable today

when it wasn't previously?

The answer is pretty simple.

There are a number of vectors that actually came together.

And this happens during the course of history where something wasn't workable and suddenly

it becomes workable.

The first thing is that the president, President Trump decided to really turn to the Arab countries and Turkey and tell them, look, you've got Hamas leadership sitting in your countries.

You've got to turn the screws on them. And you've got to tell them that either they take this deal and let the hostages out,

or I'm going to give full backing to the Israelis to militarily decide the fate of leadership

both in Gaza and outside of Gaza.

So that's the one vector.

The other vector, of course, is alongside of that,

that our military, the IDF, has surrounded Gaza City, the last stronghold of Hamas. Most

of their leadership has been eliminated. And we made it very clear that if they don't move

to agree to release the hostages, we're going to move militarily into the city and destroy their last stronghold.

So these two vectors came together and ultimately the Arab states, together with Turkey,

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