00:00In unveiling the plan, Israel's finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said that, and I quote,
00:06the Palestinian state is being erased from the table. In the U.S.'s mind, is a two-state solution
00:13dead? Well, no one can explain exactly how it works. Where is the Palestinian state? What are
00:20the boundaries? What are the borders? Who leads it? Who governs it? Who elects their officials? Do
00:25they come into power by an election? They haven't had one in 20 years in the current
00:30configuration of their government. And so it's an aspirational thing to say we want a two-state
00:36solution. But if you ask specific questions, people can't answer them. And I just feel like
00:42that there's got to be some specifics put on the table for there to be any honest and realistic
00:47discussion of what a Palestinian state would look like. And quite frankly, in Israel right now,
00:52there's no appetite for it. October the 7th was a turning point. There were many Israelis who
00:59believed and they spoke of their support for a two-state solution. But that pretty much was
01:05decimated by October the 7th. And it created an extraordinary sense of angst among Israeli citizens
01:13who saw the attack coming from the West. They don't want to end up with one coming from the East.
01:19And so they're going to put their security and their future first and foremost.
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