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Despite Saturday’s release going as planned – and even though Israel backtracked on its demand to free all the hostages by then – Israeli talking points still aren’t sending a ‘business as usual’ message: implicit threats to resume the war continue to mount
Throughout the past week, Israel managed the crisis over the hostages’ release on two parallel tracks. On one hand, it publicly supported U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand that all the hostages be freed immediately.