Sheva Balkany

If Washington and the Arab world didn't invite them, that would be news to me.

I think what is going on here is something we spoke earlier in the programming this morning, is Netanyahu's lack of commitment to ending the war.

He may argue that

Gaza is done for the moment.

The last ceasefire held less than 60 days.

He may argue that Gaza is done for the moment, but this is a license to expand into Yemen, Lebanon and Iran.

And so accordingly, giving the blessing of his presence in Egypt could be seen as a signal that he

is on board with the peace deal, which is, of course, not fully the case, which is why you see this sort of difficult tango.

Additionally, I think you see, and I was just going to say, this sort of ramshackle nature of the organization here.

Attend or not, right?

I know it's an, it's at war.

Thank you.

Obviously, something has occurred that required Sisi and Netanyahu to get on the phone with each other right before the president's speech to the Knesset.

um remaining israeli living living israeli hostages uh so uh we would now move to phase two of the deal the disarmament uh etc so it's not clear why uh the logistics of this have to be so uh painstakingly negotiated minute by minute i mean i know this is human affairs uh but something seems to be definitely seems possible to to be up um if i had to bet it's probably a netanyahu attendance

in Egypt, but for some reason that is seen as deeply controversial either to the Palestinian side or the Arab side writ large.

Yeah, I think it's going to be a media cyclone.

So it's going to be hard to say which way it breaks.

The Israeli PR machine, and it is a machine,

is going to kick into high gear.

The reality, though, is that the testimonials of the hostages and the hostages' families themselves are a real mixed bag for the Israeli prime minister, to put it mildly.