Insights from meetings with Ariel Sharon and Yitzhak Rabin offer a deeper look into the strategic missteps and their impact on the current conflict with Hamas.
Together with haredi parties, and certain Likud MKs and ministers, the centrist and center-right parties will help form a majority in the government in favor of prioritizing the release of hostages.
While there are plenty of legitimate issues for which the government can and should be criticized, the issue of the Philadelphi Corridor is most certainly not one of them.
This move is seen as a show of determination regarding Israel's stance on not leaving the Philadelphi Corridor.
The poll showed that the Israeli public mostly prefers giving up control of the Philadelphi Corridor in order to enable a prisoner-hostage exchange deal (48%).
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Below is a list of five often misunderstood points regarding the deal three-phase deal that has been under debate since US President Joe Biden first unveiled the deal on May 31.
“I think this plan A still has a very feasible path towards being accomplished,” US Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew stated.
The talks to release the remaining 101 hostages held by Hamas are stalled, primarily due to Israel's insistence on retaining control of the Philadelphi corridor, seen as crucial for Israel's security.
Does he put his political interests ahead of those of the Israeli people and the nation in general, and the remaining hostages?