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Good afternoon, everybody. It's great to have you. Look, I think that we are one weekend to President Trump's historic peace plan in the Middle East, and things are going frankly better than I expected that they were. This is a very, very tough situation. You have two peoples, two enemies who have fought a very tough conflict against each other. You have a terrorist organization on one hand that murdered a lot of innocent people. You've got an Israeli army that was defending itself on the other that has learned a lot over the past couple of years. And of course, you have an innocent civilian population in Gaza that's caught in the middle. But we're here at the Civilian Military Cooperation Center, which we are announcing the opening of. You have Israelis and Americans working hand in hand to try to begin the plan to rebuild Gaza, to implement a long term peace and actually ensure that you have security forces on the ground in Gaza, not composed of Americans who can keep the peace over the long term. So we've got a lot of work left to do. This is gonna take a very, very long time, but I think Steve Whitcoff, Jared Kushner and Admiral Cooper behind me have done an incredible job. I want to say just a couple of quick things, and then I would turn it over to Steve Whitcoff. Number one, the Israeli government has been remarkably helpful in this. I want to thank them. Thank our Israeli partners and all the folks, particularly who are working hand in hand with their American friends here at the CMCC. And number two, I want to say that there is this weird attitude I've sensed in the American media and the Western media where there's almost this desire to root for failure, that every time something bad happens, that every time that there's an act of violence, there's this inclination to say, Oh, this is the end of the ceasefire. This is the end of the peace plan. It's not the end. It is in fact exactly how this is going to have to happen when you have people who hate each other, who have been fighting against each other for a very long time. We're doing very well. We're in a very good place. We're gonna have to keep working on it. But I think we have the team to do exactly that.
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