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I'm Tim Franks.
It was eight days ago that Donald Trump went on his victory lap to Israel and Egypt,
declaring that he'd achieved the deal of the millennium, in fact,
of several millennia, and he had brokered peace in the Middle East.
Today, his vice president, JD Vance,
touched down in Tel Aviv to try to shore up that deal, the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Reports in the U.S. media say that officials in the Trump administration are increasingly concerned that the Israeli prime minister,
Benjamin Netanyahu,
could be preparing to restart the war in Gaza,
because in his view, Hamas is breaching the terms of the ceasefire.
Ugo Bechegar is our Middle East correspondent and is in Jerusalem.
Ugo, what?
Do you think JD Vance specifically is going to try to achieve today?
Well,
it's very interesting that the Israeli newspapers today seem to agree that the message that the Americans have for the Israeli government is that the Americans support acts of self-defense by Israeli troops,
but that they expect Israel to respect the ceasefire.
You know,