Background, turkey is also very close to qatar, which is a key negotiator to try to get the hostages out. so all of this is also part of both a listening tour and a quiet behind the scenes lecturing tour because u.s. officials are alarmed by the rising anti-semitism, anti-israel and anti-american sentiment that is growing in arab world because of the ongoing israel campaign in gaza, and it s also a chance to remind these various officials of what happened to israel on october 7th and ask them to understand what israel is going through and why it s doing it. netanyahu says that this war just not be stopped until the three goals are accomplished, one, to eliminate hamas, second, to bring the hostages home, and third, to ensure that israel would never face a threat from gaza again.
Minds of the people on israel and that is going to be a lasting scar that creates an insurgency even if hamas steps down. whoever tries to impose security in gaza is going to have a really tough timekeeping the area stable, especially with so much of it smashed, so much of its water, sanitation destroyed. this has been rebuilt multiple times before, but the level of devastation the u.n. is right now calling gaza unlivable. let me ask you about this situation with secretary of defense lloyd austin and his it s either a decision not to tell the white house that he was having this surgery, going under general anesthesia, was in intensive care, or that he didn t think it was relevant, that they it didn t come to mind that they needed to know. which is more likely here? i would imagine there would be like an intra government