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slash Wall Street. From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal

this is Potomac Watch.

How goes Israel's war in Gaza?

President Biden is eager for that war to end, and he has pitched a new peace plan, but Hamas, the terror group has so far failed to accept it.

Meanwhile Israel's northern border erupts in new skirmishes as Iran's proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah continues to shell Israeli villages and the

United Nations Atomic Energy Agency censures Iran for failing to cooperate on

inspecting its nuclear sites and bar. on to calm the Middle East down between now and America's election day in November.

Welcome to today's Potomac Watch Podcast.

I'm Paul As You Go, editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal and I'm here with my colleagues

Joe Sternberg and Elliot Kaufman, both of whom I've been following events in the Middle East.

Let's start with the Biden Peace plan, which was unveiled late last week by the

president at the White House and let's listen to him, talk about it.

The people of individuals should know, they can make this offer without any further risk to

their own security because they've devastated Hamas forces over the past eight months. At this point Hamas no longer is capable carrying

out another October 7th was one of the Israeli's main objective in this war and

quite frankly a righteous one.

I know there are those in Israel who will not agree with this plan and will call for

the war to continue indefinitely. Some, some are even in the government coalition.

And they've made it clear, they want to occupy Gaza,

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