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Let's bring in Trita Parsi. He is the Quincy Institute.

VP and author of Treacherous Alliance, the secret dealings of Israel, Iran and the U.S. So Trita, you write here that the Trump-Gaza deal will work but only if he keeps pressure on Israel. Why is that?

examples in the past, particularly the one we saw in January to March, in which the Trump administration used American leverage in a manner that the Biden administration never even tried, and by that managed to get a ceasefire. But they did not sustain the pressure, and by March of that year, the Israelis broke the ceasefire, the war started again, or the mass slaughter started again, and here we are in the terrible situation in which many of the hostages in that time period also got killed. So in order to make sure that this works, and we have to give the president credit for having taken this initiative, but in order for it to be more than just a tactical pause or even just a ceasefire, but actually lead to something that is long-lasting, there needs to be sustained pressure on all parties, but particularly on the Israelis, mindful of the Israeli government's disinterest in actually ending the war. We heard from Steve Witkoff today, Jared.

Kushner and President Trump's daughter Ivanka at the rally there. They say they weren't celebrating, but it sounded as if they were celebrating. No hostages that we know of yet have been transferred. No prisoners have been transferred. How do you see the ceasefire playing out right now? What process do you think we're in? I think we're back in the situation in which there is a safe approach, of course, and that always carries with it the risk that we will never get past phase one. And phase one, obviously, would be fantastic to get the hostages released, the thousands of Palestinians, including children and women who have been taken prison by the Israelis as well, and to just end this mass slaughter that is taking place right now. But if we want this to be a long-lasting thing, there needs to be an added process next to it that ensures that we go from a ceasefire to an end to the war to a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Trump seems to have an interest in doing this. He's eyeing the Nobel Peace Prize. He seems to be quite disappointed that he didn't get it this year. But there's still time, and there's also a necessity, because if we don't move forward, we will be moving backwards. And if he has now put his name on it and owns this as strongly as he does right now by all of these celebrations that are taking place, then he should have an interest in making sure that he pursues this to the very end.

once they get their hostages back. What does Israel do to Gaza, do you think?

The most important thing is for them to withdraw. The military forces do not stand in the way of any aid and food getting into the Gaza Strip. I mean, the fact that the Israelis have been blocking this is the cause of this man-made famine, which is absolutely disastrous. So the Israelis really need to pull back, and I think there's a lot of questions that need to be answered inside of Israel as well. You have a lot of the hostage families being absolutely outraged at the Netanyahu government for having prioritized the continuation of the war over the release and the freedom of the hostages. Do you think Israel will follow the terms?

We absolutely need to make sure that we have the right people in the right place at the right time. We absolutely need to make sure that we have the right people in the right place at the

that they do. We cannot just rely on hope that they will do it. It's the same thing, of course, with the Palestinians. But the United States has leverage over Israel and has rarely used it. In order to get this to the finishing line, that leverage needs to not only be used, it needs to be sustained. Trita Parsi, thank you for your time.

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