Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a big supporter of US President-elect Donald Trump and would like to see a ceasefire once the latter takes office to hand him a victory, former Israeli hostage negotiator Gershon Baskin says.
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00:00The U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, obviously has just two weeks left in the job.
00:05He says he's confident that a ceasefire deal in Gaza is going to come together.
00:10We've heard something along those lines before on more than one occasion.
00:13Is anything different this time around, would you say?
00:16I would say what's different this time from all the other times around is January 20th,
00:20the date when Donald Trump takes the White House once again.
00:25And that seems to be some kind of incentive, at least on the Israeli side, for making a
00:29deal come through.
00:31And Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is a big supporter of Trump, would like to hand Trump
00:35this victory on his first or second or early days in the White House, making good on Donald
00:42Trump's promise on election night that he would end wars.
00:46It's important to note, though, that the deal that's being negotiated right now is not a
00:50deal to end the war.
00:52It's a deal for a ceasefire and a partial return of the Israeli hostages.