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Israeli academic Gadi Taub notes that the anti-Netanyahu protesters, demanding that he “bring them [the hostages] home” now by agreeing to whatever terms Hamas has proposed, are playing into Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s hands. By holding onto the hostages, and now by threats of executing still more of them — the way he did with the six whose bodies were just recovered — the Hamas leader hopes to enroll Israelis in a campaign to force Netanyahu to accept Hamas’ outrageous terms for a “ceasefire-and-hostage deal.” More on Sinwar’s playbook, and Hamas’ latest terms that few of us were aware of, can be found here: “Sinwar’s useful idiots,” by Gadi Taub, JNS, September 8, 2024:













