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00:00Delegation that Prime Minister Netanyahu sent yesterday to Cairo or announced yesterday at
00:06American urging is explicitly not authorized to discuss phase two, which is supposed to be,
00:13as you said, the theme on the table. In fact, these conversations were to have started almost
00:19two weeks ago on day 16 of this ceasefire. Prime Minister Netanyahu is in a bind.
00:26A phase two in any formulation will bring about the end of the war in Gaza,
00:33will oblige Israel to withdraw its troops to a perimeter around Gaza, and of course,
00:40will free all of the Israeli hostages still left in Gaza. But the first two points are sticky for
00:47Prime Minister Netanyahu because many of his ministers, several of his ministers have said
00:51they will not vote to support it and they could topple his government if he accepts an end to the
00:57war, as they put it, before Hamas is crushed. And by definition, if Israel is negotiating with
01:03Hamas, Hamas is still in existence. So he's going to have a difficult two weeks negotiating between
01:10the agreement that he has signed on to and the demands of his coalition partners.