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Is the Israeli government about to reject a potential deal to bring some hostages home?
The headline on Times of Israel above, which appears as of this writing, is pretty typical of what’s in the online Hebrew press as well. What is actually transpiring is hard to know, but the rumors are that Hamas may have proposed a partial deal that would involve some cease fire (end of war?) and a return of some hostages. Rumors are that (a) the government will not agree to end the war (a position that in and of itself is not hard to defend) and (b) will refuse any deal that does not release all the hostages (which it’s hard to imagine Hamas ever doing).
So will this deal (if it’s even…
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