Read Professor Bernard Avishai's article, What Joe Biden Must Tell the Israeli Public, published in The New Yorker

"It is hard to see how we get a hostage deal and ceasefire by Monday: Hamas wants a permanent ceasefire, its own version of victory, and has called Biden's claim "premature"; Smotrich, determined to see the I.D.F. in Rafah, insists that bringing home the hostages "is not the most important thing." But, meanwhile, Biden is discretely promoting his larger plan, in the obvious hope that a deal for the hostages can be folded into it," writes Professor Avishai.

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