That’s the rumor in both Washington DC and in Cairo at the moment, anyway. According to anonymous sources around the hostage talks, all of the mediating parties have just about given up on getting a deal done. The only tactic left to get an agreement is an ultimatum, apparently, and so the US, Egypt, and Qatar will issue one shortly.
‘Take it or leave it’ only applies to one of the two parties, of course, but the pressure will all come down on the other. And Israel knows it:
Israel is braced to receive a non-negotiable Gaza hostage deal on the table from mediating countries Qatar, Egypt and the United States.
“I think that what will happen in the end” is that “there will be a kind of take it or leave” deal which US President Joe Biden would put forward “together with the Egyptians and the Qataris,” Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Yuli Edelstein told The…
