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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast. I'm Kate Andrews, the spectators U.S.

Deputy Editor and your guest host of Americano this week while Freddie Gray is away.

I'm delighted to be joined by Demer Marusich, assignment editor at the Washington Post, and co-founder of Wisdom of Croutes.

Demir, hi.

Hi, Kate.

Demir, we've had news that the Trump administration and Israel have pulled out of ceasefire talks in Qatar,

as the president has said that he didn't believe that Hamas really wanted to make a deal.

The news comes as there are reports flooding in that Palestinians are

starving to death as this war rages on. In terms of this most recent update from Qatar,

do you think this changes the situation, which has been going on now for the better part

of two years? Does it fundamentally change the situation? No, I mean, we've been in this horrible, horrible

situation for quite some time now. Look, it's a nasty place to be, I think, you know,

certainly for the Palestinian civilians in Gaza with reports of famine spreading. It's really

as horrific what has transpired. But the thing that I think is really worth

pondering about this is something that is kind of lost in a lot of the reporting here,

which is that Hamas has really developed a kind of really brutal and hideous new kind of

guerrilla warfare approach, which is by digging its heels in, it's found a way to basically

resist Israel's conquest, final sort of victory in the Gaza Strip.

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