Sheva Balkany

The hostages' families, I'd say broadly speaking, have been protesting and lobbying the government to end this war sooner.

And the hostages themselves may be in no condition to give media testimonials, understandably,

And if they do, they may be, they may be moan

the degree to which they were held in captivity.

Why didn't their own government negotiate for the release sooner?

And of course, it's because the hostages release was just one of a number of objectives pursued by Netanyahu, not the sole objective.

As for the Palestinian side, look, there's already been reports of 200 bodies uncovered in the rubble.

Obviously, that's just a fraction of the number that is due to be recovered and due to be

um you know sadly put into the tally of this war um and you know people i trust in the region have long said uh look reporters and uh documentarians basically can't get into gaza um and as this is uncovered and as and it's already been horrifically covered i mean the stuff that has been smuggled out but as this is uncovered this could very well be the largest crime scene in the world it's going to be ghastly

I saw the schedule, the itinerary for this trip over the weekend, and I did think it was extremely odd that he was leaving in late afternoon Eastern time and that he was going to arrive basically nearly at dawn in the Middle East.

and just go straight and do it.

And you know better than me, but, you know, Air Force One is fairly comfortable, but it's not a hotel.

It is an airplane, ultimately.

held in these conditions by Hamas is just extraordinary.

I was looking, you know, during the break, there's this piece out by this small UK outlet called The New World,

It's a magazine, and this is a sort of left-wing magazine, and this guy says, a bullying autocrat, his terms, has succeeded where years of calm diplomacy failed.

Progressives must ask why.

And the reality is I've seen a lot of people complaining that why didn't Biden...

force Netanyahu into this kind of deal.

And when I say force, the US gets a vote.