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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Will the Trump negotiated ceasefire in Gaza hold as more fire is exchanged over the weekend,

and as Hamas moves to violently purge potential rivals?

Plus, the U.S. and Australia sign a deal on rare earth minerals after China uses its

stranglehold on their production to threaten the West.

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We're joined today by my colleagues on the editorial page, Elliot Kaufman and Alicia Finley.

How fragile is that piece in Gaza negotiated by President Trump after, over the weekend, two Israeli defense forces soldiers were killed.

Israeli military sources saying this was the result of terror operatives in Rafah, Israel then responding over the weekend with air strikes.

Let's listen to a clip of Donald Trump responding to this on Monday at the White House.

We made a deal with Hamas that, you know, they're going to be very good.

They're going to behave.

They're going to be nice.

And if they're not, we're going to go and we're going to eradicate them if we have to. They'll be eradicated, and they know that.

So they went in, they went in, and I don't believe it was the leadership, but they had some

rebellion in there among themselves, and they killed some people, you know, pretty a lot of people,

but this is a violent group. You know, you probably noticed over the last hundred years.

This is a very violent group of people, and they got very rambunctious, and they did things

that they shouldn't be doing, and if they keep doing it, then we're going to go in and straighten it out and it'll happen

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