Hi, everyone. I hope we're having a great day. I'm Glenn Dyson, and I'm joined today by

Alexander Mercurris and Alistair Crook, a former British diplomat, negotiator and one of the

best advisors and experts there is on the Middle East. So, let's, I thought we could start off

with the Middle East, and more specifically, Israel,

because we now have, well, a fragile ceasefire.

Some hostages have been released for many reasons.

This doesn't necessarily look very good for Netanyahu and I was also curious

how stable his position actually is these days given that he seems to be in a very strange

dilemma on one hand he he wants if he keeps the cease, then you see the return of Hamas.

On the other hand, if he breaches it, then he's held accountable for not getting the rest of the hostages back,

which is even worse, given that they seem to have been treated quite well.

How do you see this situation playing out for Israel as this looks a difficult

position for Netanyo? Well, two things that have happened have really shot, if you like, the Israeli psyche in a dramatic way.

And the first was, and I'm talking about ordinary Israelis, all of them.

I mean, first of all, was with the first hostage hostages released.

I mean, they saw images of Hamas parading in their trucks in Gaza, in smart uniforms,

clean uniforms, clean weapons, all modern, modern, the most latest guns.

In fact, they'd taken from the Israeli special forces, I suspect.

But I mean, it was a huge shock.

And the crowds cheering and the Hamas moving.

And I think just today they had a military parade in Gaza, a large parade of their forces, all in uniform, all smartly, I mean, like a professional, disciplined army.

And what's more, out of this came, first of all, the three hostages, and instead of what they were expecting,

...