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Re: Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran … War
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth View Post
You were careful not to mention what the path wanted by the families was.

So what did they demand of Netanyahu and when? It varied along the timeline.
Plenty of articles have discussed this over the last year. Here's one from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz back in March. Full link attached.

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Analysis | Two Months Ago We Had Hope. Then Trump Allowed Netanyahu to Destroy the Hostage Negotiations

U.S. President Donald Trump and Steve Witkoff seems to be falling into the same trap that caused Joe Biden's team to fail after the collapse of the first hostage deal: They have let Benjamin Netanyahu set the terms for the negotiations.

...But we witnessed with amazement how he [Steve Witkoff] succeeded in pressuring both Hamas and the Netanyahu government. With Trump's backing and support, he managed to get a cease-fire in place and a multistage deal to release all the hostages and end the war.

We knew right from the start that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu didn't want this deal. As the vast majority of hostage families in Israel have said and written, the U.S. government has been more committed to the release of the hostages than the Israeli one. This despite the fact that Netanyahu and his ruling coalition bear the ultimate responsibility for the failures that allowed Hamas to kill 1,200 Israelis on October 7 and kidnap 251 into Gaza – an unprecedented catastrophe in the history of our young country.

For Netanyahu, from the moment the cease-fire deal was signed, there was one clear objective: to make it collapse before the end of March, when his ruling coalition must pass a state budget for 2025 or else automatically fall and Israel will head to new elections.
In order to pass the budget, he needed his extremist partners – most notably Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and the Kahanist Itamar Ben-Gvir – to support it. That's why we always knew he would try to blow up the deal at some point this month.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...f-ffbc94e10000

As the paper stated in June
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To End the Gaza War, Trump Must Pressure Netanyahu. Instead, He's Coddling Him
https://archive.ph/zFETS#selection-307.0-307.78
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