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David Stearns was asked about the Mets taking time to form their team identity with so many new players this season: "I think there are adjustment periods, I think that's natural. I think specifically in New York, there are adjustment periods. We've seen that time and again... My sense... show more
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![😡GROTESQUE: Jared Kushner on Gaza— "[I'm a] volunteer to help the government when asked... [but] we appointed [the] new government in Gaza... businessmen who are risking their lives." "Tony Blair has been great." "We're building a Palestinian police force." "Steve [Witkoff] and I are both realizing, 'Oh, my God, there's a lot to do to keep this thing held together.'" ---------------Partial transcription of clip---------------- "I have not joined the administration, so I'm still just a, volunteer like other businessmen who volunteer to help the government when asked. The level of engagement has definitely been a lot more than, I anticipated. "It really got started with Gaza. I was helping, Steve Witkoff, who's, really, an amazing human being. And he's really made a big sacrifice to go and devote his life to trying to make a difference on some of these, very, very challenging issues. And I know firsthand how lonely it is to be in those jobs and how hard it is when everyone's rooting against your success. "And so I spent a lot of time helping Steve, just quietly. And then when things got very intense with Gaza, Steve, and the president asked me to get more involved operationally, which obviously, when the president asks you to do something, you do it. And, we worked together incredibly well. We're able to achieve an outcome that, I think nobody thought was possible. "For two years, the war in Gaza was raging. It was causing really, a big dark cloud over the entire world. And I think that, it was something we were able to get in. And really, with the great help of our partners, in Qatar and Egypt and Turkey and many others who helped, we were able to get to a great outcome. "And now the 20 hostages have been brought home. All 28 bodies have been returned. It's the first time since 2014 that there's no, hostages or dead bodies in Gaza. And now that's creating the conditions for a new beginning. "You know, the other side of it as well is now that the war has stopped and we've, you know, a lot of people thought it wouldn't hold. It was a very delicate ceasefire in the beginning. You know, I thought I would get the deal done, and then, you know, I'd go back to my life. But then Steve and I are both realizing, oh, my God, there's a lot to do to keep this thing held together. "You know, there's so much here hatred and emotion and distrust when you're ending a war that you can't just, like a light switch, turn it on and off. So we, then started focusing on how do we deal with the massive humanitarian issue that was occurring in Gaza. You had 2 million people there. "We've been able to work with the United Nations. I give Tom Fletcher a lot of credit. We've, put in more humanitarian aid into a war zone. Than I think has ever been done in history. So now, there's a lot of aid in there, and we've started the rebuilding process. I know Yakir, Gabay is here, who's a great friend of mine, and, he's basically volunteered all of his time away, from his businesses to try and help us come up with a plan to do this. "Tony Blair has been great, so we really have brought a lot of great entrepreneurs and thinkers in, and I think we're, making a lot of progress. And, we're currently, I think it's about four months, since the war, was stopped, and I think nobody thought it would last this long. And, we're kind of at the final stages of the negotiations with Hamas on the demilitarization, where, they've basically agreed in principle to, follow through. That was the agreement we did. Now their concerns are mostly about, well, if we turn over our weapons and we do this, who are we turning them over to? "And, we're building a Palestinian police force. Right now we had over, I think about 200,000 applicants for it, and I think over like 70,000 that passed our vet. So we're going to build a great Palestinian police force, and so we have to work it through. And I think that we appointed a new government in Gaza, which also was a very interesting, experience all, again, businessmen who are risking their lives, to go in and do public service in that area. And, our goal is just to really help them. And I think we want to see this region built for, at least Gaza. We want to see it built for the people of Gaza."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2037701588664684901/amplify_video_thumb/2037698393980751872/img/6KMUsGH_fQ3KaVLo.jpg)
