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January 20, 2025

A Military Perspective on the Hostage Deal

Hamas buckled under the IDF’s campaign—and declared victory.

Two of the most important questions about the recent agreement with Hamas are “Why now?” and “What is the relationship between the deal and the military campaign?” To Ron Ben-Yishai, the answer to the two questions is related, and flies in the face of the widespread (and incorrect) claim that the same agreement could have been reached in May:

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January 20, 2025

  1. A Military Perspective on the Hostage Deal

    Hamas buckled under the IDF’s campaign—and declared victory.

  2. Hamas Reveals the Truth about Gaza. Will Anyone Notice?

    An obscene spectacle.

  3. How Multiculturalism Led Britain to Ignore Severe and Rampant Sexual Abuse

    The Rotherham scandal returns.

  4. An Unabashedly Zionist View of Theodor Herzl

    The most consequential theater critic in modern history.

  5. Why Tertullian Preferred Symbolic Jews to Real Ones

    A church father’s anti-Jewish polemic.