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How do you interpret the curious silence among all those people who just wanted to stop this war at any cost?

The ceasefire now crowd.

Now the ceasefire plan on the table, you don't really see the Mark Ruffalo's of the world leaping in front of

their webcams to demand that Hamas accept this deal. Many of these people are at pains to say that

they're not supporters of Hamas. They're just supporters of the beleaguered Palestinian people who are

pure victims here. Surely they would want Hamas to accept this ceasefire deal and stop the killing.

Where are all these voices?

It's 8.30 p.m. on Sunday, October 5th here in New York City. It's 3.30 a.m. on Monday,

October 6th in Israel, where Israelis turned to a new day and anxiously await news as to whether we will see a hostage ceasefire deal in the next few days.

Last Thursday, on Yom Kippur, two people were killed and four wounded when a terrorist carried

out a stabbing and car-ramming attack outside a synagogue in Manchester in the UK.

The terrorist was named as Jihad al-Shami, a British citizen of Syrian descent, and the

fatalities were identified as Adrian Dalby and Melvin Kravitz, who were on

their way to Yom Kippur's services at the Heaton Park Congregation Synagogue. Like all Jews,

we stand with the Jewish community of Manchester, while they, and we, face a terrifying,

increased threat of anti-Semitic violence.

Meanwhile, it has now been almost a week since President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu

held a press event at the White House where President Trump announced his proposal to end the war in Gaza,

which Israel had accepted.

On Friday, Hamas announced it would too accept Trump's proposed deal, albeit with

several caveats, including some surrounding the demand that Hamas disarm and relinquish power.

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