Sheva Balkany

This seemed extremely unlikely during the UN and New York in late September.

The Trump-Netanyahu relationship is certainly worth a book.

I think it's certainly more than meets the eye.

Netanyahu, body language doesn't lie.

He doesn't look super happy.

fly by the seat of the pants, right?

And, you know, especially if everything that's going on, that's less than adequate and it implies

I don't want to speak too soon, but it implies a lack of enthusiasm within the Israeli state itself for the end of this war, even though, I mean, look how desperate this population is for the return of the hostages and for the end of the war.

It speaks to the sort of schizoid nature of Israeli society where the government is so much more hard of line than so many good people in that country.

I do think I just I can't keep emphasizing enough.

He's not in Israel very long.

I would remind that Trump did not visit Israel on his last trip to the region in May.

And that also appeared to be an intentional maneuver.

I take what the co-panelist says very well.

But the reality is that

Gaza and Hamas don't have that many cards, to use the president's words.

No country in the world has a fertility rate of 10.

Gaza, basically, as far as anyone understands, has a fertility rate of somewhere between three to four, which has been declining since the 2000s.

Hamas is running out of people as well.

Some of their Politico bureau could be replenished by this hostage exchange, but most of the hardliners, the ones who planned the October 7th massacre,