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If process of normalization starts in the Middle East, if the Middle East accepts Israel,

I think it will be make it much easier for the friends of Israel to come back and be friends in Israel in the West.

What process of normalization does is saying to reach the success, we paid currency with our legitimacy. And then normalization is leveraging the success in order to bring back that currency. So normalization is the missing piece to declare real victory.

It's 1.30 p.m. on Sunday, November 16th here in New York City. It is 8.30 p.m. on Sunday, November 16th in Israel,

as Israelis wind down their day. Today, Sunday, the Israeli government took the decision to establish a commission of inquiry into the failures surrounding the October 7th massacre.

According to Hebrew media reports, the commission will not be an independent

state-run commission of inquiry. Its mandate will be determined by cabinet ministers, prompting

backlash from opposition figures. This topic, the role of the commission of inquiry, how

independent it actually is, the history of commissions

of inquiry in Israel and the role they've played after wars is something we will be exploring

in a future episode. Also today, IDF chief of staff, AEL Zemir, toured the Gaza Strip, where he stated

that the IDF must be prepared for a rapid transition into a broad offensive in which Israel would

conquer more territory beyond the yellow line if needed. Meanwhile, Israel and the U.S. are preparing

for the United Nations Security Council to meet tomorrow, Monday, to vote on a resolution that

would endorse President Trump's Gaza Peace Plan, which includes the establishment of an

international stabilization force to oversee Gaza for the time being. Notably, the plan also

envisions a potential pathway to a Palestinian state, which many Israeli leaders across the

political spectrum from right to left, have continued to state their opposition to.

Also, over the past week, a surge in extremist settler violence in the West Bank has attracted

the attention of leaders in Israel and also abroad. The attacks have mainly targeted

Palestinian communities with some riotersers even going after Israeli soldiers.

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