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The only way to actually impact Hamas is through the military action that we're taking.

But I severely think that the military action, as effective as it will be against Hamas,

will also bring about the execution

or the hostages. That's my take on it professionally. But I'm not against the military action.

I'm against the fact that I think that Hamas's counteraction would be not only to execute them,

but to do what they did a year ago, to film it, to put it out there, to totally tear us apart,

because we're going to blame ourselves for their executing the hostages.

It's 9 a.m. on Wednesday, August 20th here in New York City. It's 4 p.m. on Wednesday, August 20th in Israel,

as Israelis get ready to wind down their day. Before we start, one quick housekeeping note,

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And what's one thing that diaspora Jews don't understand about Israelis?

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ARKMedia.org. And now to today's episode, on Sunday, Hamas announced that it had agreed to a hostage

ceasefire proposal just one day after Prime Minister Natanyahu declared Israel will not accept

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