Don’t say you weren’t warned. Yesterday, everyone in the world attempted to claim credit for a hostage-exchange deal between Israel and Hamas, even though the agreement technically didn’t get final approval. Israel had agreed to the terms on the table, Hamas had supposedly given a ‘green light,’ but I wrote yesterday that Hamas usually attempts to pull their last-minute manipulations at this very stage:
As I wrote earlier, don’t count on this deal holding up until the hostages get released. And even if it holds up through Phase I, don’t be surprised when Hamas reneges and demands a renegotiation at that point, too.
And … welcome to the Hamas Hokey Pokey:
President Biden and the prime minister of Qatar announced Wednesday both Israel and Hamas had accepted the truce, the result of a year of painstaking diplomacy that reached a conclusion in the days before…
