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David Freeman is former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, author of one Jewish state, the last best hope to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

This is a man that helped bring a world peace in the Middle East under the last

Donald Trump administration. Ambassador, welcome back to the show. David, thank you for taking

the time with us, my friend. Thank you, Joe. They could be with you, as always. Well, we do appreciate

it. Can we walk through the three hostages? We're freed in this third exchange of the Israel-Hamas

ceasefire.

We're given back 200 Palestinians.

And now Bibi is now meeting with Donald Trump, I guess today, David Freeman.

Give us your thoughts on what's going on here.

And how will this all end up, do you think, sir?

Well, look, it's an incredibly delicate time for Israel, for the hostages who still haven't been freed,

I think 79 hostages alive or dead that are still in captivity.

Look, I think today is the day when, according to the deal, which is, you know,

like we all know, it's a, it's a horrible deal in the sense that, I mean, the numbers make

no sense. I mean, Israel, every time Israel gets back, one victim of terror, they have to give up

50 terrorists. I mean, it's, it's mind-boggling, but this is the value that Israel places on the lives

of its citizens. And that's the strength and it's also the weakness of the country. But that's

going on. Now we're at phase two of this deal. In phase two, the negotiations, at least

to face two start today. And for phase two to happen, which would be the release of the remaining hostages,

they have to agree to a final end of the war.

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