This is Seth Silver's.

Thank you for joining us for pant suit politics.

This is Sarah Stewart Holland.

And this is Beth Silver's.

Thank you for joining us for Pantsuit Politics. Hi, we are sneaking into your feed with a bonus episode today.

The war between Hamas and Israel has been one of the most difficult topics we've covered

while making this show for a lot of

reasons. Almost everyone has intense feelings about this war and for many of you those

feelings come from very personal experiences and connections to people living right now in Israel or Gaza.

As we've thought about how to credibly share information and perspectives, we wanted to talk with

Gregory Kaleelow, the co-founder of Tello's.

Tello's has been working for peace for a long time now in the Middle East,

and as we've tried to express in our conversations,

our hearts desire peace.

We did this interview with Gregory right before

Thanksgiving and then quickly all of the circumstances on the ground

changed. The first truce agreement between Israel and Hamas was

announced and the first hostages were released. We like so many of you held our breast through that period,

hopeful that the ceasefire would be extended,

that humanitarian aid would arrive in Gaza,

and that all the hostages would be released.

So we held the interviews we quietly watched and waited. in Gaza and that all the hostages would be released.

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