2025-01-21
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You've heard the news.
Here's what to make of it.
I'm Dan Waken, an international editor for New York Times Opinion.
I'm Tom Friedman, foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times.
Tom, Donald Trump has now taken over the reins as president and I want to talk to you about the challenges around the globe that he's inheriting.
Just this weekend we saw the release of hostages in Gaza and you wrote that the Middle east right now faces one of those rare moments when everything is in play and everything is possible.
So let's dig into that a bit and then talk about some of the other challenges that Donald Trump faces on the foreign front.
But to start, will you explain what you meant by this being a rare moment?
Well, it's really for the whole region because if you look around the horn, first of all, Lebanon is completely in play.
They've just produced a new president, Joseph Aoun, and a new prime minister, Nawaf Salam, both enormously popular, decent, moderate people who are committed to restoring Lebanon's unity and sovereignty.
In Syria, Bashar Al Assad has been toppled and been replaced by a coalition basically of Islamist and secular forces.
Syria now has a chance really to come back in effect from the dead.
In Israel, Palestine, Gaza, you have basically now a ceasefire finally.
And so the first really prolonged end to that war now is on the table.