This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

The conflict in and around Israel involves several fronts.

So Bill Rajo of the Foundation for Defense of Democracy is my colleague and co-host, and we're very pleased to welcome someone who can cover all seven fronts for us.

That's Seth Fransman, the war correspondent for the Jerusalem Post.

He's also Foundation for Defense of Democracy, where he contributes to the Long War Journal frequently,

and the author of a new book, The October 7th War, which now has a new day in 2025

for Mr. Trump's administration already indicating, and it's just talk, that Mr. Trump and

Mr. Netanyahu are colleagues when it comes to what must be done.

There's a lot of blanks there, but that's what generally has been reported here in the U.S.

Seth, a very good evening to you. I begin immediately with the report about Hamas that the U.S. has pressured or indicated to Qatar that the Hamas leadership

that is in Qatar for negotiations leave. There's the additional report in the Financial Times

that the Hamas delegation has already anticipated this and is in conversation with Turkey to move to Mr. Erdogan.

The way Reuters presents this in these last hours, after Hamas's rejection of hostage deal, U.S. asked Qatar to expel the group.

Can you help us on this story? Hello, U.S. asked Qatar to expel the group. Can you help us on this story? Hello, Seth.

Yes, hello. Basically, there's been several times in the last year that we've heard the potential for Qatar asking Hamas to leave. And over the last several years, there was, you know, questions about why is Qatar,

which is a major non-NATO ally of the United States, hosting a terrorist group.

So the spotlight should have been on them after October 7 to get Hamas to leave because

why would you want this terrorist group kind of, you know, basically being empowered by them?

The recent reports, you know, are floating this by them. The recent reports, you know,

are floating this idea again. The question is, where would Hamas go? And is Qatar just kind of doing

this or or our sources in the U.S. doing this as a sort of trial balloon to see if it would

actually happen? Because I think Doha has profited a lot off of having Hamas there

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