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The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, is in Jerusalem, where he's been given a very warm welcome,
unlike the reception given to his colleague,
Defense Secretary Pete Hesgath, by European leaders in Munich on Friday,
where they sat in stunned silence as he doubled down on President Trump's peace plan for Ukraine,
which involves direct negotiations, negotiations between the US And Russia,
to the exclusion of Europe and indeed Ukraine.
But in Jerusalem, Mr.
Rubio got an endorsement of Mr.
Trump's widely condemned plan to take control of Gaza
and relocate its more than 2 million residents.
Then there's a resumption of supplies of heavy weaponry to Israel,
suspended by the Biden administration, and Mr.
Trump's dire threat of opening the gates of hell for Hamas unless all the hostages are released.
Here's the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
President Trump and I are working in full cooperation and coordination between us.
We have a common strategy, and we can't always share the details of this strategy with the public,
including when the gates of hell will be opened,
as they surely will if all our hostages are not released until the last one of them.