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Hostage Crisis, Day 120

Hostage Crisis, Day 120

Hostages in Hamas's subterranean hell are injured, starving, raped, and tortured. Some are US citizens. Why have Americans been so muted in their response?

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I was just listening to Vivian Bercovici’s Sunday podcast, which is excellent. She and her guest, Ya’akov Katz, discussed the hostages who remain trapped in Hamas’s tunnels. They ask what price Israelis are prepared to pay to secure their release.

State of Tel Aviv
S2 E8. Sundays with Ya’akov Katz: Hostages and the Slo-Mo Implosion of UNRWA
In our weekly chat Ya’akov and I get into the hostage dilemma that continues to tear apart the nation. It corrodes everything and Hamas understands this fully and leverages Israel’s psychic suffering brilliantly. But it feels like we are getting to a point where no victory is more important than bringing them home. Now. We then look at the spectacle of …
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a year ago · 1 like · Vivian Bercovici

In Israel, it isn’t just the families of the hostages who are in agony. The whole country is seized with anguish. People describe themselves as “living in suspended animation.” They say, “time has stopped still” since October 7. The hostages have been on the front page of every Israeli newspaper every day since October 7.

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