Netanyahu’s Red Line: The Philadelphi Corridor

Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced at the end of a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday that Netanyahu has accepted the new U.S. bridging proposal for a hostage deal, and now Hamas should, too, the secretary said. But Netanyahu’s detractors in Israel, as well as Hamas, insist on blaming the Israeli prime minister for sabotaging the deal. In Israel that alleged sabotage is tied to the controversy over the Philadelphi Corridor, the border between Gaza and Egypt where the IDF has so far found about 200 smuggling tunnels. Gadi and Mike discuss the politics around the deal in Israel, the U.S., and among Hamas and its allies—all in the shadow of a looming regional war.

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