It's not clear that time isn't working for our advantage.

Now to outside observers, especially diaspora Jews, every day that passes,

the Palestinian campaign kicks up gear and everything feels more, right, it's more distanced from the massacre

and Gazan civilians are more in the news and everything feels like the window is

closing and that's a difference in perception because to the Israelis they do understand that a window is

closing around the world. But they're still finding bodies, so they don't care as much. They don't feel

that window closing.

It is Sunday, October 22nd 10.30 p.m. here in New York City. It is 5.30 a.m. on Monday

October 23rd in Israel.

Aviv Rettigur returns for our weekly conversation from Israel

to provide real-time reporting and analysis on the war

and invaluable historical context. I want to check in with

Aviv on increasing questions and growing worries. I'm hearing from friends

within Israel and also from within the United States about why, as it relates to the

call-up of reserves and the deployment along Israel's southern border, why the, well, why the sense of hurry up and wait? Well, there could be a number

of known knowns when it comes to all the equities that Israeli decision-makers must be balancing.

There's the desire, if not the operational need for a swift and devastating operation to

eradicate Hamas's terrorist and weapons infrastructure while allowing time

to exhaust all possible options for the return of the hostages before the

ground warfare commences.

And also at the same time trying to collect and analyze more intelligence and prepare for an operation

that hopefully does not get bogged down in Gaza.

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