00:00Look, that's your characterization of it about the term disrespect. What I would say is this. This was, first of all, it was a miracle that it happened in the first place. We all understand how difficult it was for that to come to the conclusion that it did, where the actual bombing and everything else, the scale and scope of what we saw ended, all the hostages were released, and we have relative peace right now, for the most part, despite the things you're pointing to. That was very difficult. But this is not easy. Peace is a verb. It's not, it's an action. It's not a sentiment.
00:29Every single day will bring challenges. Every single day. We also have had instances, for example, over the last couple weeks where Hamas elements emerged from a tunnel, attached an explosive device to the side of a vehicle, and injured and almost killed Israeli soldiers. We still have this threat. We still have and see every single day Hamas openly taking steps to strengthen themselves with inside of those places in Gaza that they still control. We saw early on the atrocities they were committing in the streets against people as they were trying to show people how strong they were.
00:58So I don't think I'm standing here to tell you this is going to be easy. This is an hour-by-hour, day-by-day challenge. It's one of the reasons why we have stood up the center there in operating in Israel, in partnership as well with another cell that exists in a regional country.
01:12It's why every single day there are meetings among both intelligence, diplomatic, and military officials of multiple countries that help bring about this deal to manage this.
01:22And that's why it is so critical. It is so critical and so key that we move to complete this first phase, that we move to put in place the Board of Peace, get everybody agreed to be a part of it, move to put in place this Palestinian technocratic organization so that they can begin to provide some governance structure, and move to put in place the stabilization force.
01:40That's the goal here. But it's not going to be easy. Every day we'll bring new challenges to that, and we recognize those challenges are coming from all sides.
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