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Mark Simone on W.O.R.

Well, Jake Novak, the great columnist and Israel expert, and you can follow him on Twitter.

It's Jake, Jake, N.Y at Twitter.

And now on Substack, Jake Novak at substack.com.

Jake Novak, how you doing?

I'm doing okay.

You know, it's good to see some of these sausages getting returned to Israel.

I don't know what it's going to mean for the future.

We're all kind of waiting to see that concern.

But, you know, it's hard to be too hard-hearted when you see some of these families getting reunited.

So I guess I'm happy for that. Yeah. And what's the deal now? They've announced the will extend the pause two days. What does that mean for Israel? Well, what it means is that Hamas is playing games. You know, they promised that they wouldn't separate, you know, that some of the hostages were children and their parents. A lot of the children had their parents murdered right in front of them,

but there were some children who were taken along with their parents. And Samas said, no, we won't release the children without their parents. And, of course, they did that. So now they're saying, oh, we've now found some of their mothers. I mean, you know, the way that they're, I mean, even in the hostage release, despite most of the news media's depiction of it as some kind of humanitarian deed, which is really quite disgusting. I mean, the idea that you're releasing hostages that should never have been taken to the first place is a good act is ridiculous. It's good for the families that they're reunited, but it's not good for anyone involved in the taking of the hostages in the first place. So it just means they're playing games. That's what it means. It's pretty bad.

So is the problem, first thing, you've got the Biden team, which they're very weak on standing up to these terrorists. And also, somebody like a stammering Anthony Blinken, not a strong negotiator. Is that the problem here? Yeah, it's a problem.

Not only even, let's say they were better speakers.

Let's say President Biden could speak coherently.

Let's say President Biden could speak coherently. Let's say Secretary would say Blinking could speak coherently. They would still have a problem of their years and years and years of policies that enabled this stuff. The funding of Palestinian groups that they knew most of the money, if not all of it, was going to terrorism. Their support for the Iran deal, which made this possible.

This spike in terrorism against Israel and some other countries in the region is directly

connected to all those billions that President Obama released to Iran, and then President

Biden did his own little mini version of the Iran deal, releasing even more.

So this is a huge problem that these guys have.

And now, Mark, they have this problem with the left flank of their own party, which is

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