Tangle - The Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal.

Starting point is 00:00:00 From executive producer, Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking and a little bit of my take. I'm your host, Isaac Saul. And on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the Israel Hamas ceasefire deal that was announced late on Wednesday. And we have some updates on that potential deal, I guess we should say now from Thursday morning. It seems to be a little bit of waffling happening now, which is never encouraging, but we're going to break down exactly what's going on and give you some views from across the political spectrum, including some views from Israeli and Palestinian writers. Before we jump into that though, quick heads up that tomorrow,

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Starting point is 00:03:23 [♪upbeat music playing -♪ [♪upbeat music playing -♪ [♪upbeat music playing -♪ [♪upbeat music playing -♪ [♪upbeat music playing -♪ [♪ in Gaza that widened across the region. A ceasefire and hostage deal was struck today between Israel and Hamas. The deal between the warring sides was mediated by the United States, Egypt, and Qatar,

Starting point is 00:03:31 and will start this weekend. The Biden administration had spent many months trying to force the parties toward a deal, but a final push in coordination with the incoming Trump team helped get this, helped get to this agreement today. A senior administration official says that the U.S. didn't know there would be a deal until just minutes before announcing it, after Hamas tried this morning to insert new objections.

Starting point is 00:03:55 But tonight, after 15 months of one of the most intense aerial campaigns in history, the deadliest ever war on Israeli soil and the deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinians, there is cautious hope the ceasefire will hold. On Wednesday, negotiators announced a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas that will pause fighting in the Gaza Strip and could potentially end the 15-month war that heightened other conflicts

Starting point is 00:04:22 in the region and leveled much of Gaza. The deal is still pending approval by the Israeli government, which delayed a meeting to discuss the agreement on Thursday over alleged concerns that Hamas had not accepted all of the terms. Hamas senior officials said that they remain committed to the deal. The deal is structured in three phases and includes the return of all living and dead Israeli hostages, the total withdrawal of Israel from Gaza, the exchange of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, and eventually a Gaza reconstruction plan.

Starting point is 00:04:52 Egypt, Qatar, and the United States are guarantors of the peace deal, which was mediated in Doha, Qatar, and included negotiators from Arab countries and the United States, as well as an envoy from President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration. According to Qatar's Prime Minister, Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, phase one of the deal will begin on Sunday and last roughly six weeks. The first phase consists of a ceasefire, a gradual withdrawal of Israeli troops from central Gaza, the return of displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza, admittance of humanitarian aid into Gaza, Hamas's release of 33 hostages including two Americans, and Israel's release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

Starting point is 00:05:35 Specifically, Israel agreed to release all Palestinian women and children under 19 detained since October 7, 2023, returning 30 Palestinian detainees to Gaza for every civilian hostage and 50 Palestinian detainees for every female soldier Hamas releases. Israel will also retain control of the Philadelphia corridor between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, though this provision is reportedly now a point of contention. Negotiations over the second phase will begin on the sixteenth day of phase one. While discussions are still ongoing, that phase is expected to include the release of all remaining living hostages to Israel, a permanent ceasefire, and Israel's total

Starting point is 00:06:15 withdrawal from Gaza. The third phase of the deal includes the return of the remains of deceased hostages to Israel and a reconstruction plan for Gaza. There was no other way for this war to end than with a hostage deal, and I am deeply satisfied this day has finally come, for the sake of the people of Israel and for the families waiting in agony, and for the sake of the innocent people in Gaza who suffered unimaginable devastation because of the war," President Joe Biden said in a statement. This epic ceasefire agreement could have only happened as a result of our historic

Starting point is 00:06:47 victory in November, as it signaled to the entire world that my administration would seek peace and negotiate deals to ensure the safety of all Americans and our allies,' President-elect Trump said, posted on Truth Social. The Israel-Hamas War began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched a surprise attack, killing over 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking about 250 hostages, according to Israel. Since then, Israel's ground and air campaign in Gaza has killed over 46,600 people, over half of whom are women, children, and older people, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. Today, we'll get into what the left, right,

Starting point is 00:07:28 and righters from Israel and Palestine are saying about the deal, and then Isaac's take. ["The Last Supper"] We'll be right back after this quick break. All right, first up, let's start with what the left is saying. The left is glad the two sides reached a deal and primarily credits Biden, but many say the president's handling of the conflict deserves scrutiny too. Some suggest Trump made the deal happen given his unique political leverage.

Starting point is 00:08:06 In the foreword, Emily Tamkin said, this hostage deal is Biden's victory, but it's also Biden's shame. President Joe Biden's administration has secured a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, and President-elect Donald Trump is taking much of the credit. The parallel that immediately jumps to mind is that of President Jimmy Carter, whose work to resolve the Iran hostage crisis only paid dividends after his successor had been sworn into office, Tamkin wrote. Like Biden, Carter spent his last year in office as a one-term president consumed with negotiations over trying to get hostages released, but as tempting as it is to see history rhyming, a crisis in the Middle East, inflation, a president finally achieving a deal only on his way out the door, there's an important

Starting point is 00:08:49 difference. Namely, Israel is not Iran. Where Carter was exclusively negotiating with an enemy country, one of the two countries with whom Biden was negotiating was Israel, an American ally. And although the Biden administration repeatedly placed primary blame on Hamas for scuttling ceasefire efforts, we know that, for example, ceasefire negotiations this summer were reportedly complicated by conditions that Netanyahu added in, Tamkin said. It is perhaps too early to make sweeping assessments about what this deal shows us, but one question

Starting point is 00:09:20 we can ask now is whether Biden privileged preserving U.S.-Israel friendship, even as his own relationship with Netanyahu reportedly deteriorated, overreaching a deal. In The Atlantic, Yaya Rosenberg wrote, Trump made the Gaza deal happen. The terms largely echo a proposal laid out by Biden himself in May 2024, but the incoming president dragged the parties over the finish line. What changed was not Washington's general orientation toward the conflict. Far from turning up the heat on Israel, Trump telegraphed a further embrace of its positions during his 2024 campaign, Rosenberg wrote. Hamas could reasonably surmise that it would not get a better deal during a Trump presidency,

Starting point is 00:10:02 while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hard-right government likely acceded to the arrangement in order to stay in the new leader's good graces as he assumes office. Put another way, it's not that Trump had a stick with which to beat Israel that Biden didn't have. It's that his presidency holds out the prospect of carrots that Biden would never offer, Rosenberg said. It was less the president-elect's pressure than his potential promise that brought the Israeli far-right onside.

Starting point is 00:10:28 With Trump, everything is a transaction, and for his would-be suitors, not just Israel but also Hamas' sponsors in Qatar, the Gaza ceasefire is a down payment. Alright, that is it for what the left is saying, which brings us to what the right is saying. Many on the right argue that there are few winners in this conflict, but Trump clearly made the deal happen. Some say Israel faces an uncertain future and an unpredictable American ally under Trump. In Reason, Matthew Petty said nobody won the war in Gaza. certain future and an unpredictable American ally under Trump. In Reason, Matthew Petty said, nobody won the war in Gaza. President Joe Biden tacitly endorsed a de-escalation-through-escalation strategy, flooded Israel with weapons

Starting point is 00:11:15 at U.S. taxpayer expense, and even deployed U.S. troops onto Israeli soil. In November 2024, the Hamas negotiating team was kicked out of Qatar, reportedly because of the Biden administration's pressure. Thousands of Lebanese and Palestinians were killed, Petty wrote. Hamas will rule over a traumatized population living in bombed-out wreckage. The dead have not been properly counted. The official death toll of 46,600 may have missed 40% of violent deaths, and that doesn't include deaths from starvation and disease.

Starting point is 00:11:48 Iran, which had given Hamas vague assurances of support in a war with Israel, was caught by surprise in October 2023 and turned out to be unprepared for the confrontation that followed, Petty added. Iranian losses, however, are not necessarily America's gains. The United States now has more responsibilities in a Middle East that is more chaotic and violent than before. The only winner so far is Trump. Discontent over Biden's war helped swing the election to Trump, and a ceasefire on

Starting point is 00:12:18 the eve of inauguration is the best of both worlds for the Trump administration. In the New York Times, Brett Stevens suggested the Israeli right may soon be disenchanted with Trump. Thanks largely to Trump, a deal demanded by the Israeli left and reviled by the right is about to come into effect. A year's worth of diplomacy by the Biden administration is finally about to bear fruit on account of its political nemesis. The far-right parties that were part of Netanyahu's

Starting point is 00:12:45 coalition may bolt the government, Stephen said. In the hostage deal, the price for Israel will be, in many ways, heavy. For every Israeli hostage released by Hamas, Israel will release several-fold Palestinian prisoners, many of them with Israeli blood on their hands. This doesn't mean the deal is a bad one for Israel's national interest. A more difficult quandary for the Israeli right is what else Trump may want them to accept. The President-elect clearly wants an Israeli-Saudi normalization agreement as a capstone to the Abraham Accords he oversaw in 2020. For that to happen, the Saudis will demand a roadmap for a Palestinian state. Trump may also prefer to use Iran's current weakness to negotiate a second nuclear deal,

Starting point is 00:13:28 Stevens wrote. Donald Trump may have the soul of a bully, but he also has the instincts of a deal-maker, and a yearning for a claim, including the Nobel Peace Prize he thinks he was denied for the Abraham Accords. Whatever else his next four years in power will bring, it won't conform to ideological type. Alright, that is it for what the left and the right are saying, which brings us to what some Israeli and Palestinian writers are saying. Israeli writers celebrate the hostages' potential return, but worry that some terms

Starting point is 00:14:04 of the deal will embolden Hamas. Palestinian writers express relief at the prospect of an end to the fighting in Gaza but say it is little consolation after the last 15 months. In the New York Post, Leo Leibowitz wrote, Praise that the Israeli hostages are coming home, but a deal that keeps Hamas in power is a bad one. The ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas is meant to be a first step, and we don't

Starting point is 00:14:28 know what happens next or the promises that were made behind the scenes. Most importantly, the idea of dozens of Israelis, including toddlers, returning home after more than a year in purgatory is enough to dull even the most hawkish observer's concerns, Leibowitz said. Yet, it is very hard to observe this deal and see it as anything other than an utter and complete disgrace and an embarrassment for America. First and most devastating, Hamas remains in power, greatly weakened, true, and hampered by increased Israeli military presence in Gaza, but able to claim ultimate victory.

Starting point is 00:15:03 Why would Trump, who repeatedly said there would be hell to pay if the hostages weren't released before he takes office, put his weight behind a deal that, with very few and very minor details, is the exact same one peddled unsuccessfully for many months now by the Biden administration, Leibowitz wrote. The unspeakable horrors of October 7, 2023 ought to have inspired a new and bold rethinking of American policy in the region, one that no longer tolerates terrorists or their handlers. Instead, we're getting another deal that telegraphs a lack of resolve and rewards the terrorists for their heinous crimes.

Starting point is 00:15:38 In Al Jazeera, Afaf Al-Najjar described a fragile claim amid unending struggle. As a Palestinian, receiving this news feels like standing in the eye of the storm in a moment of ghostly calm surrounded by chaos and destruction. For me, at least it marks the end to the bloodshed. But the fact is, the ones we lost will never return, and these scars will never heal. How would a ceasefire ever change that fact? Al-Najjar wrote. Ceasefires are often hailed as victories for diplomacy, but to me, they are more like pauses in a constant nightmare. This latest agreement is a reminder that for the people of Gaza, survival often hinges

Starting point is 00:16:17 on the fragility of politics. Children, mothers, and fathers carry the unbearable weight of uncertainty. I find myself asking, is this truly a step toward peace or just another chapter in a story of delayed justice and extended suffering? The cease-fire's terms, reached under immense international pressure, include a halt to airstrikes and rocket fire, along with provisions to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza. These measures are desperately needed, but their necessity is also an accusation of the international community's failure to act sooner

Starting point is 00:16:51 to prevent the crises that make such measures critical," Al-Najjar wrote. Temporary peace cannot replace the right to live freely and to dream beyond survival. This prompts another critical question. Will Palestinians ever get their rights to have full control over their political and diplomatic path to justice, or will they always be eliminated from the political stage and portrayed to fit in the victim's role? All right, let's head for what the left and the right are saying as well as some takes from Israeli and Palestinian writers, which brings us to my take. So first and foremost, I'm glad Israel and Hamas seem to have reached a deal.

Starting point is 00:17:44 Even if I have to explain a million different caveats which I'm going to in a moment, this is an important term that everyone can celebrate at least to some degree. In December of 2023, I wrote a piece titled Ten Thoughts on What is Happening in Israel, and in thought number three, I insisted that the most important story in the war was the death and destruction in Gaza. A couple months later, I wrote The Zionist Case for a Ceasefire. One thrust of that piece was that Israel was going to create a generation of new adversaries by continuing this war.

Starting point is 00:18:16 Today, the United States believes Hamas has recruited almost as many new fighters as Israel has killed since the war began. To sit here, now now in January of 2025, having just begun this ceasefire process, is in some ways a relief, an outcome I've been praying for every day for over a year. But it's also disheartening that the deal took so long and that it seems so incomplete.

Starting point is 00:18:40 I wish that I could sit here and tell you that this war is over, but I can't. The hard part doesn't start until the first stage is completed. Negotiations for phase two will begin on the 16th day of phase one, and they will require Hamas to coordinate the release of all its remaining living hostages and Israel to commit to a lasting peace and total withdrawal from Gaza. We are a long way out from a more secure future, and this agreement is in many ways just a baby step. Sadly, even that small step is often an

Starting point is 00:19:12 auspicious start. This morning, we got this update from Israel via the New York Times, quote, Israel's cabinet was expected to vote Thursday, but at midday, Israel had yet to convene ministers to discuss the proposal, citing last minute disputes with Hamas. On Thursday morning, the office of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, accused Hamas of reneging on parts of the agreement without specifying which ones. A senior Hamas official said the group was committed to the deal." I could say a lot about the timing of this deal. For starters, I have long believed that the biggest obstacle to ending this war, aside from Hamas holding hostages, was Netanyahu's understanding that ending the war would cause a collapse in his governing coalition. That coalition has depended

Starting point is 00:19:56 on far-right extremists in the Israeli government, and Netanyahu knew that if he agreed to a deal to end the war that allowed Hamas to retain control, they would likely abandon him, and he would lose power. Here's how the Wall Street Journal reported on the changing dynamics. The agreement isn't much different from the terms that were available months ago when more Israeli hostages remained alive and before thousands more Palestinians lost their lives. But several factors have pushed the parties closer recently. Netanyahu, meanwhile, has solidified his governing coalition, reducing the leverage of right-wing parties who have opposed any deal. I really can't overstate how disgusting this entire spectacle is. It should be one of the great political scandals of our time, that an obstacle to ending this

Starting point is 00:20:40 horrific spate of violence was a prime minister fearing he would lose his job if the war ended, exactly what many Israelis have been accusing Netanyahu of for more was a prime minister fearing he would lose his job if the war ended, exactly what many Israelis have been accusing Netanyahu of for more than a year. Instead, it's a mere footnote in the coverage. This, of course, is not to absolve Hamas. From day one, they could have laid their arms down and returned the hostages to end the war, but they opted not to. You can read their actions in two ways. One, they mortgaged the lives and infrastructure of the entire Gaza Strip and their delusional belief

Starting point is 00:21:07 that they could win the war. Or two, they were glad to martyr the Gazan people uninterested in the pain and suffering they invited onto those they supposedly care for. And then of course, there's the question of whom to credit in the US. My view is that even if this ceasefire holds, it will be one of the great embarrassments

Starting point is 00:21:25 of the Biden administration, the cherry on top of a foreign policy record that is teetering on abysmal. Consequently, it will be one of Trump's great accomplishments, beginning before he even took office, a goal he stated during the campaign. The Times of Israel reported that Trump's envoy swayed Netanyahu more in one meeting than Biden did all year. The Washington Post reported that this was the first time there has been real pressure on the Israeli side to accept

Starting point is 00:21:49 a deal since the war began, crediting Trump's influence. If this deal holds, again, if, it will also reflect poorly on me. I wrote repeatedly that the Arab-American voters in Michigan and across the U.S. who opposed Harris or outright supported Trump in protest of Biden's handling of the war would be sorely disappointed. Perhaps my view there proves accurate in the long run. I still believe Trump is a staunchly pro-Israel president whose interests are diametrically opposed to the Palestinian liberation cause. But if Trump begins this term by helping negotiate an end to this war, I'll be eating some crow and those voters will have both increased their political power and gotten the result they wanted.

Starting point is 00:22:29 What comes next is anyone's guess. I've seen reports and heard from a few sources that Trump is going to pursue a Saudi normalization deal, which would likely include recognizing the right of a Palestinian state. Gaza, which has been completely leveled, will have to be rebuilt. Only 16 of the 36 hospitals in the entire strip remain operational, and even they are only partially functioning, with just 1,800 beds available in total, according to the UN. Schools, places of worship, and homes

Starting point is 00:22:56 across the strip have been destroyed. There is no economy. Infrastructure like sewage, water, and power lines have been wiped out. The scale of the rebuild is incomprehensible. The road ahead is certain to be rocky, with little guarantee that Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad will stop attacking Israel or that Israeli soldiers will leave Gaza and stay out. When the war does end, journalists will enter Gaza in earnest, and the truth of the destruction will come into focus. There will be trials, charges for war crimes, and ongoing allegations of genocide. A massive power struggle to lead

Starting point is 00:23:29 Gaza will unfold as well. Moments to celebrate in this conflict have been rare, so for now, I'll take it. But nobody should mistake this first step as an end to the war or as a peace deal. This is just the first step in a long brutal road ahead toward reconciliation and stability. We'll be right back after this quick break. All right, that is it for my take, which brings us to your questions answered. This one is from Joe in Naples, Florida. Joe said, is your answer about the smelt living in brackish water not being an issue really your answer to the more important question, which is,

Starting point is 00:24:17 has fresh water been diverted to preserve the brackish water of the smelt? So this is a good question from Joe and it relates to our issue on the Los Angeles wildfires in which we dismiss President-elect Trump's claim that protections for the Delta smelt were responsible for Los Angeles's water security issues by saying the fish didn't live in zones where the city sources its water. This question presents a good point. The issue Trump is highlighting might not be with the estuaries themselves, but with the upstream water that feeds them.

Starting point is 00:24:48 In fact, part of the preservation plan for the Delta smelt is outflow augmentation, meaning that conservation efforts have indeed called for the state to commit to providing more fresh water to those areas. However, the critique that this hurt Los Angeles's water access falls flat for two reasons. One, the plan the state enacted only pertains to pumping delta zones in the winter and did not result in changes to managing upstream flows. Two, the delta zones implicated by the plan are in the San Francisco Bay area and wouldn't affect Los Angeles. All that said, we still think it was correct for us to say smelt conservation isn't relevant

Starting point is 00:25:23 to wildfire responsiveness in Los Angeles. We do appreciate the probing question for allowing us to more fully get into why. All right. That is it for my take in your reader questions today. Again, we'll be back tomorrow with a members-only podcast. We're off on Monday for Barton Luther King Day, but as always, we'll have a Sunday pod coming your way. Keep an eye on the feed and you'll hear from us soon. We'll see you guys then. Have a good one. Peace. Thanks, Isaac. Here's your Under the Radar story for today, folks. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is set to announce his appointment to fill vice president-elect JD

Starting point is 00:26:02 Vance's now vacant Senate seat this week, and one name is beginning to gain public traction – the vague Ramaswamy. President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly been pushing the tech entrepreneur to fill the seat if offered, and Ramaswamy is said to be open to the idea. While Trump previously named Ramaswamy to lead the Department of Government Efficiency alongside Elon Musk, a Senate appointment would likely require him to vacate that role. Whomever DeWine appoints will run to keep their seat in 2026, and the winner of that election will serve the remainder of Vance's term ending in 2029.

Starting point is 00:26:37 The Washington Post has this story, and there's a link in today's episode description. Alright next up is our numbers section. The estimated cost of damage to critical infrastructure in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas War is $18.5 billion dollars according to an April 2024 report by the World Bank and the United Nations. The percentage of structures in Gaza estimated to have sustained damage during the war is 66 percent, according to a September 2024 United Nations assessment. The approximate percentage of Gaza's health facilities that have been damaged or destroyed is 80 percent.

Starting point is 00:27:18 The percentage of Israelis who said that President-elect Donald Trump would be a better president than Vice President Kamala Harris for Israel's interests in a November 2024 Israel Democracy Institute poll is 64.5 percent. The percentage of Israelis who said Harris would be a better president than Trump for Israel's interests is 13 percent. The percentage of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip who said they expected Hamas would control the Strip at the end of the current war in September 2024 is 57%, according to the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research. The percentage of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip who said they prefer Hamas to control

Starting point is 00:27:57 the Strip at the end of the war is 36%. And the percentage of Americans who said the U.S US should play a minor or major role, respectively, in resolving the Israel-Hamas war is 37% and 24% according to a September 2024 Pew Research survey. And last but not least, our Have a Nice Day story. At 16 years old, Renee Wang was already seeking solutions to important societal issues. She noticed the extensive number of homeless individuals in her community, prompting her to research constraints on the existing shelter system.

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