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Welcome to the Tudor Dixon podcast. Today, I have Ambassador Yahil Leiter with me. Thank you so much for joining me. He is Israel's ambassador to Washington. Thank you for joining today.

It's good to be with you, Tudor. Thank you for having me.

Absolutely. So obviously, we want to talk about what is going on in the Middle East. There's so much happening. We know that there is the ceasefire, but we've had some breaches and Israel has taken action.

Do you expect that to be sort of a back and forth for a while, or what are you expecting in this, in this

ceasefire? Well, Tudor, nobody really knows because this has never been done before.

Hamas occupies an area, which is originally 24 miles long and 8 miles wide, with 2.2 million

people and terror tunnels that are 450 miles

of networking. And you have to understand it's basically a city underground, a terror city,

which initially has some 40, 50,000 armed terrorists, the teeth. Now, we've degraded them

considerably. We're sitting on 50, a little

over 50% of the territory now and making sure that the tunnels are eliminated, that no terrorists

go into that area. And we're very enthused and encouraged by the ceasefire that the president

has really invested in. President Trump did something

really incredible through his envoys, Secretary of State Rubio, Vice President fans,

Jared Kushner and Steve Wyckoff. Because basically, not only did we get the 20 live hostages

out, which nobody thought could be done, except

the Prime Minister of Israel who stuck to his guns throughout this entire process and said,

we've got to get all the hostages out.

We still have 13 deceased hostages.

We have to get out, and according to the agreement, they're committed to doing that.

But nobody thought that we'd achieve

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