It's been two years since the October 7th attacks on Israel.

On that day in 2023, Hamas fighters killed 1,200 people and took hundreds hostage.

In response, Israel unleashed a military campaign that has brought death and devastation to Gaza.

Now President Trump, with Israeli Prime Minister

Benjamin Netanyahu by his side, has unveiled a 20-point plan, he says, will bring a lasting

peace to the region. On Friday afternoon, Hamas said it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, Alibar dead,

under the terms, and signaled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss

the details, according to Reuters. Has a new path to peace been opened? Hello and welcome to

USA Today's The Excerpt. I'm Susan Page, Washington

Bureau Chief of USA Today. To discuss where we are and what challenges remain, I'm joined by Michael

Orrin, a former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and a military historian. Thank you for being on

the excerpt, Ambassador Warren.

Good to be with you, Susan, and thank you for getting that right.

They often introduced me as America's ambassador to Israel.

You got it right, thank you.

President Trump called this one of the great days ever in civilization, potentially.

Do you think that this plan can live up

to that billing? Potentially, yes. But to understand the import of that, you've got to go back to

two years. You've got to go back to October 7, 2003, with Hamas's horrendous tax on Israel,

killed 1,200 Israelis, and took 250 plus hostages.

For the state of Israel, this was a profound, profound, emotional, physical, military shock.

The state of Israel was founded three years after the Holocaust with a promise that that would never happen again.

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