Former US official: US to pressure Middle East intermediaries

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00:00Eli, Israeli officials are holding indirect talks with Hamas in Qatar.

00:05Of course, the militant group says they will only agree to a ceasefire

00:10with a guarantee of a permanent truce in the future.

00:14Is it possible that we could see Donald Trump actually hold direct talks with Hamas

00:20to end the bloodshed, to steer them in a direction where peace will happen?

00:26I'm not sure about the notion of U.S. having direct talks with Hamas.

00:34For many years, the U.S. policy has been that we don't negotiate with terrorists.

00:38Now, we also are relying on friends and allies in the region,

00:44countries like Qatar, Egypt, Turkey, to serve as those intermediaries with Hamas.

00:50And I think that that's been considered so far a successful model.

00:53So it doesn't seem to me that what's been holding up a potential peace between Israel

01:00and the citizens of Gaza is that the U.S. needs to have direct talks with Hamas.

01:08What is holding up the next stages is the fact that Hamas is refusing to accept the American proposals.

01:15And so where I think the U.S. pressure might go next is towards those very same allies that I was mentioning,

01:23Qatar, Egypt, Turkey, to really pressure Hamas to accept the U.S. proposals,

01:29to take any exit strategy that's being offered to the leaders of Hamas at this point,

01:34and to leave Gaza.

01:35So if that is what happens, I think it doesn't have a chance to get to the Asia.

01:40So let's move on to the next stage.

01:41So let's move on to the U.S. for the next stage that is the Department of bleeds and the U.S.

01:43to sit down for the rest of the day.

01:45How does he do that?

01:50How is it going to be helpful?

01:51How does it behave?

01:52How does it behave?

01:54How does it behave?