The Rise and Fall of a Hostage Deal - with Nadav Eyal

Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

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Society, October 7, Hamas, War, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Israel, News Commentary, News, Politics, Elections, Palestine, Dan Senor, Government

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🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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What exactly unfolded in Israel over the past 72 hours? Details are still emerging, but at one point it appeared that all sides may have been close to reaching a hostage/temporary ceasefire deal. Except that we now know that Israel had made major concessions in one deal, while Hamas was agreeing to an entirely different -- and new -- deal, so there wasn't actually any kind of agreement to speak of. All against the backdrop of the IDF commencing its operation in Rafah. And, what is Israel doing at the Rafah border with Egypt and what are the implications for Israel-Egypt relations? Our guest is NADAV EYAL, who is a columnist at Yediiot. Eyal is one of Israel’s leading journalists, and a winner of the Sokolov Prize, Israel’s most prestigious journalism award. Eyal has been covering Middle-Eastern and international politics for the last two decades for Israeli radio, print and television news. He received a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a law degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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0:00.0	The Israelis are saying, we want to stop the war, to get our hostages back, we'll make some
0:06.9	concessions and then we're going to come and kill you.
0:10.5	It's a problem convincing the other side that this is a good way to go.
0:15.0	He's saying to the mediators and to the US, why should I agree?
0:19.0	And what they're saying, the US is of course denying this, but I guess that what they're signaling is, you know what, after this phase of the war, it's going to be over.
0:30.0	So everyone is trying to cheat the other people in this negotiation to think It is 5.30 p.m. on the 7th on
0:52.3	7th on the 7th in Israel where I'm joined from Tel Aviv with
0:56.9	Nadavayel from Yidiut Akranut to get his latest reporting and analysis and try to make sense of what has happened
1:05.0	over the past very tumultuous 72 hours. Nidov, thanks for hopping on.
1:10.0	Thanks for having me again, Dan. Nodav an intense drama has been
1:14.4	unfolding in Israel over these over these past 72 hours. Hostage negotiations
1:20.3	off, then a hostage deal maybe on, and then it seems like the deal is off, or maybe it was
1:28.4	never really on before it was off, and while this story is unfolding Israel formally commences its operation
1:37.2	into Rafa but now I'm being told that maybe it wasn't it was informally
1:41.3	already happening so there's a lot of twists and turns and
1:44.4	we will want to focus on where events go but before we do can you just take us
1:50.9	through the past 72 hours?
1:52.5	We just need to understand how we got,
1:53.8	we'll get to where we're going from this moment,
1:56.4	from Tuesday, May 7th on.
1:58.4	But can you just explain to try to,
2:00.6	a lot of fog for those of us following from afar as to what's been happening over the
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