Hi, it's Saturday. It's the Saturday show where I do one from the vault and one from the

week. And this one, the one from the week informs and actually referenced the one from the vault.

So I was looking over the 20, now 20 point plan to solve Gaza. If Hamas gets a copy of it, okays it. And I noticed that so many of the

points dealt with hostages. And that is because the hostages are very, very important to the

Israelis. And you might say, well, hostages are important to every country. They want their

hostages back. I'm not saying

they don't. By they, I mean America. I'm saying, what do we do about it? How much does it occupy

our mind share? How much do we obsess over it or prioritize it versus a country like Israel?

A cohesive, more homogeneous country like Israel.

And so I played a couple of recent pieces of tape of recent hostage releases of Americans

under the premise you probably didn't even know they were taken hostage.

I try to account for a couple reasons, one or two to be fair type reasons,

but I think the real reason is Israel is one kind of country where they think of each other as one

kind of people, where they care for each other, and America is a different kind of country.

At the end of the spiel, I even talked about some of the strategic upsides for being

more or less indifferent to the hostages.

Informing this, and I didn't even get into it in the spiel, but why not?

It's the Saturday show.

Informing this all was the release of a hostage taken by Iraqi militants, thugs.

You could call them as the Biden administration thought of them as political actors in the

fractious Iraqi system.

And she wasn't an American.

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