Nearly all of us are hoping that this deal goes through, that the hostages will be returned to their families, even at the cost of releasing terrorists and making it more challenging to destroy Hamas, since getting all the hostages back any other way seems impossible, and further fighting Hamas has diminishing returns and comes at immense cost. (I write “nearly all” because Ben-Gvir, Smotrich and most of the others from their parties voted against the deal and thus presumably want it to fall thr...
Published on October 12, 2025 08:50