This is the critical question: Which administration will we get?
TO paraphrase Tolstoy, each hostage’s family is unhappy in its own way. In the dramatic moments of the deal’s signing, I spoke with Yitzhar Lifshitz, son of two of the hostages: Yocheved, who was returned during the first deal, and Oded, who remains in Hamas’s tunnels. Yitzhar’s 85-year-old mother is still as sharp as a tack.
“I don’t know which is preferable at this point,” he told me with pain, “to be lucid, or to be unaware of your surroundings.”
Yitzhar’s remark encapsulates the reality of Israeli life recently. Netanyahu made the decision to go for a hostage deal lucidly, but in serious pain, as he’s still recovering from his surgery. That neatly parallels the mixed feelings among Israelis about the hostage deal.
What changed this week? Why did it happen now? I asked one cabinet minister who supports the deal.
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