Part of the Biden administration, and by the way, parts of the Biden administration that we'll see in the next administration if Harris wins the elections,

are convinced by the Israeli arguments that you cannot allow Hamas to re-arm itself

and it's gonna if you're not gonna be at the Philadelphia corridor.

They got convinced.

And I didn't hear this after the bridging offer. I heard that

before they made the offer. It's 7 o'clock p.m. on Thursday, August 22nd here in New York City.

It's 6 o'clock p.m. on August 22nd in Chicago as Democrats convene

for the fourth night of the Democratic Convention. It's 2 o'clock a.m. on Friday

August 23rd in Israel as Israelis turn to a new day

preparing for Shabbat and as Israelis turn to this new day and as they continue to brace for a kinetic strike from Iran or

Hezbollah or both this long anticipated attack may have been put on hold by

Tehran while Israel and Hamas have been busy negotiating the last details of a

hostage and temporary ceasefire deal. And what exactly was this bridging

proposal we have been hearing so much about from the US side?

Well, based on officials and journalists I'm talking to in the Middle East and elsewhere,

one objective of this US.S. bridging proposal, at least an unstated objective

of the proposal was simply to play for time.

Keep things relatively quiet during the Democratic Convention.

Nothing more distracting from the good vibes in Chicago

than a military escalation in the Middle East.

A regional war was unlikely to happen while Secretary

Blincken was shuttling around the region. I think we'll be hearing more

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