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

I welcome Mary Kessel, Executive Vice President Stevenson, Incorporated, former senior advisor to the Secretary of State. To reflect on the news, it's incomplete, but it's positive about an arrangement to end the

Gaza war, return the hostages, rebuild the Gaza Strip for the people who live there,

and do this without Hamas, threatening everyone all the time with murder.

Mary, a very good evening to you.

The news is incomplete, but the headlines in London and in Jerusalem and in New York and in Washington

are all moving in the same directions.

But a long time since that happened about the Gaza War, it appears that there are no roadblocks

at this point, including the so-called far-right

in the Israeli cabinet.

This will be an enormous achievement.

As I understand it, there'll be a new commission that supervises the rebuilding and the resettlement

and the security and the government of the Gaza Strip, headed by Tony Blair, the former

Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Mr. Trump will continue to participate, though he's a busy man, and so his presence will be

that of the weight of the president.

All of this has been put together in severe conditions for quite some time.

What is your measure now of the prospects for this?

You have a feel for grand ideas, and it's certainly utopian to imagine after a war as

horrible as this one, you could come to a peaceful conclusion. Am I being utopian as the authors of the 20-point plan are,

or is there reason to be positive about this? Good evening to you. Good evening to you, John.

Always great to be with you. Look, many American presidents have struggled with Iran-backed terror in the Middle East, but specifically

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