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Volume 16, Issue 35

“This didn’t start with October 7th. It started with the Gilad Shalit deal in which the public campaign to free one soldier put tremendous pressure on Netanyahu so that in the end he released 1,027 terrorists, including Sinwar. In exchange, a few years later, we got 1,200 murdered Israelis and hundreds of kidnapped. Sinwar and his murderers understood back then that this was the path to victory. “Those who didn’t understand this back then when they were demanding a deal for Gilad Shalit, must surely understand it now.. We are dealing with an enemy who is evil, bitter and cruel and who has created for our society an unbearable, painful, heartbreaking dilemma. Hamas is holding one hundred hostages. At least a third of them are already not alive. Hamas is toying with us in its negotiations because it knows that every scrap of hope followed by disappointment ruptures Israeli society.”

----Israeli Nobel Prize Laureate, Robert J. Aumann, September 8, 2024

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