Today, at least, Hamas and Benjamin Netanyahu agreed on one point — further negotiations are pointless. Hamas started off the day by announcing it would suspend talks on the hostages until Israel sent more aid to northern Gaza:
Hamas has suspended all Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal negotiations until humanitarian aid is brought into the northern part of the Strip, Al Jazeera reported on Saturday citing a leading source in the terror organization.
“Negotiations cannot be held while hunger is eating away at the Palestinian people,” the Hamas source told Al Jazeera.
Netanyahu responded by calling Hamas’ demands “delusional” again, and offered to return to talks if Hamas got more realistic about their position. The delusional part isn’t the aid, which has been an element of previous pauses and hostages-for-prisoners swaps, but the demands of Israeli withdrawal from Gaza as a…
