Netanyahu doesn't want peace

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no interest in peace as the war is his political mode of survival, former Israeli hostage negotiator Gershon Baskin says.   #Israel #Netanyahu

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00:00How is Benjamin Netanyahu viewed by the families of the hostages in Israel?

00:06Is he determined to keep this war going for his own political gain and not reach any agreements?

00:14The hostage is a representative of the overall Israeli population.

00:17And according to public opinion polls, between 70 to 80 percent of Israelis want this war to end

00:23and want a deal to be done that would bring all the hostages home at once.

00:27Not this phased deal that will take weeks or months to implement and have a million points of exit from it.

00:32The public wants this war over.

00:34They recognize that Netanyahu wants to keep the war going because that's his political survival.

00:39That's what prevents us from going to new elections and from a commission of inquiry to be established

00:44that will hold responsible those who failed to protect Israel on October 7th and all the events that led to October 7th.

00:51So, yeah, Netanyahu has an interest in keeping this war going.

00:54And this is why he refuses to end the war.

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