A three-week peace ceasefire is really an effort to do that. That’s why I think it’s been seen as an important objective to just give us some time to allow for some kind of a discussion to happen. If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work. But we do need to do something to try to defuse the existing current potential for a wider war, which would include Papa Bear, Iran." - Meaning and context.">
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Ivison: UN ambassador Bob Rae denies Canada is an unreliable friend to Israel (Published Oct 04, 2024)
• John Ivison speaks with Rae about Canada's relationship with Israel (Published Oct 04, 2024)
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Hezbollah has hugely populated that area, not only with people, but also with underground tunnels, with all the other activities that we associate with them, and with rocket launching facilities, and so on. So I don’t think anybody thinks that the 21-day ceasefire line, if you like, is going to be the line that will ultimately be acceptable to Israel. But we do need to figure out how to get the parties to a table and to begin to get serious efforts at mediation underway,” Rae said.
A three-week peace ceasefire is really an effort to do that. That’s why I think it’s been seen as an important objective to just give us some time to allow for some kind of a discussion to happen. If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work. But we do need to do something to try to defuse the existing current potential for a wider war, which would include Papa Bear, Iran.

— Bob Rae

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Hezbollah has hugely populated that area, not only with people, but also with underground tunnels, with all the other activities that we associate with them, and with rocket launching facilities, and so on. So I don’t think anybody thinks that the 21-day ceasefire line, if you like, is going to be the line that will ultimately be acceptable to Israel. But we do need to figure out how to get the parties to a table and to begin to get serious efforts at mediation underway,” Rae said.
A three-week peace ceasefire is really an effort to do that. That’s why I think it’s been seen as an important objective to just give us some time to allow for some kind of a discussion to happen. If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work. But we do need to do something to try to defuse the existing current potential for a wider war, which would include Papa Bear, Iran." in the context of "Ivison: UN ambassador Bob Rae denies Canada is an unreliable friend to Israel (Published Oct 04, 2024)
• John Ivison speaks with Rae about Canada's relationship with Israel (Published Oct 04, 2024)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Bob Rae

About Bob Rae

Robert Keith "Bob" Rae, PC, OC, OOnt, QC, MP (born August 2, 1948) is a Canadian politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre and sits in the Canadian House of Commons as the Liberal opposition's foreign affairs critic. He currently serves as Canadian Permanent Representative to the United Nations under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.