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Elections in the Air, Revolutions in Question: Israel Watches Gaza, Iran, and Washington
January 9, 2026 finds Israel in a familiar but unsettling posture: waiting. In this episode of Tel Aviv Diary, Marc Schulman surveys a region caught between ceasefire talk and battlefield reality—Gaza’s “stage two” remains opaque, Hamas appears financially entrenched through control and taxation of incoming goods, and the final unresolved issue of a captive’s remains hangs over the process as a warning from past agonizing precedents.
On the northern front, the picture is similarly suspended. Hezbollah has been weakened and partially constrained, yet not decisively disarmed; Israeli strikes…
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