Who Won the Hamas-Gaza Cease-Fire Deal, and Biden Says Farewell
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
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🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:09.0 | Hamas and Israel finally strike a ceasefire deal in the waning days of the Biden administration, |
| 0:15.1 | with the help of, believe it or not, Donald Trump, what's in the deal and will it stick? |
| 0:20.4 | As it has appeared wobbly in the first 24 hours |
| 0:23.9 | after the announcement, also President Biden delivers his farewell address to the nation from the |
| 0:29.5 | Oval Office, warning the country about a tech industrial complex and a new oligarchy that he |
| 0:36.2 | fears is taking power in the United States. |
| 0:39.7 | Welcome. I'm Paul Giego. I'm the editor of the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:44.3 | And here is our Potomac Watch podcast of the Opinion Pages daily every day. We're on tap. |
| 0:50.3 | And those are our subjects for today on Potomac Watch. I'm here with my colleagues Elliot Kaufman and Bill McGurn. |
| 0:57.0 | Elliot, you've been digging into the Hamas Israel ceasefire. So what are its main components? |
| 1:03.7 | Well, the main accomplishment is freeing at least some of the hostages. |
| 1:09.1 | How many? |
| 1:09.8 | Some 33. |
| 1:11.4 | We will see exactly how many as it goes forward. |
| 1:15.3 | And how many would be left? |
| 1:16.4 | Around 60 left. |
| 1:17.5 | So there are 94 in total, dead or alive, still in Gaza, having been held there for a long time by now, |
| 1:26.6 | all the way since October 7, 2023. |
| 1:31.0 | So getting some of them out is wonderful, a relief. |
| 1:35.7 | Certainly for Israelis, seven Americans number among those 94. |
| 1:42.7 | Again, not all of them alive. Getting some of those Americans out would be |
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