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Barton and Tim Barton. You guys later in the program, Jonathan Feldstein will be with us. We'll be

talking about Israel. And of course, when we had him on Genesis 1,23.co is his website.

When we had him on a few months ago, we were talking about more Americans

getting involved and businesses getting involved in the Middle East, investing there, helping

to rebuild all of those things. And then we scheduled the interview to have him on. And before we

even knew Donald Trump was going to say something about America, you know, going in and rebuilding

Gaza. So the timing's perfect. Looking forward to having him on later today.

You know, there's some really interesting things happening with Gaza. As Trump has started escalating his rhetoric about Gaza, talking about it more, talking about America's going to take it

and fix the problems and solve it. And this American intervention stuff, it has really raised

the focus. And I think put pressure on Hamas, Palestinians,

and others to have to do something, because they know that Trump can and will weigh in.

We don't know how it's going to look like if he does or what it's going to look like,

but that's putting pressure on them. And so with that pressure, we've started seeing more

releases of hostages, but it's, it's been interesting to me,

watching the condition of the hostages as they're coming out, the early ones were in a lot better shape than these most recent ones were, and these most recent hostages that have come out

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