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Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis · May 22, 2025 · 1m

“You’re the only reason that I’m here. You saved my life.”

That’s what Edan Alexander said to Donald Trump in the video above, released by the White House. Edan, and particularly his mother, have taken a lot of heat on Israeli social media for thanking Donald Trump and not Benjamin Netanyahu. It might have been an oversight—but perhaps not.

Either way, having a just-released hostage say to the President, “You’re the only reason that I’m here” couldn’t have sat well with the Prime Minister (who since then has announced that he’s willing to end the Gaza War as long as Trump Gaza relocation plan…