I cannot shake the notion that Bibi was offered the ability to trade about 25 additional Israeli hostages (out of about 100 we have evidence are still alive), in return for 100 of the “prisoners” Hamas wants back. [We already got about 100 back in the early days.]

I won’t second guess whatever went into rejecting that offer, but I will say that if it is accurate that something like 200 Palestinians were killed, in the raid — even if only half of those were not Hamas operatives (i.e., ~100 dead innocent Gazan women and children — many likely being used as shields, or hostages of a kind, themselves — to Hamas)…

That was a bad… deal. four alive — for ~100 innocents dead.

The man? He is dead — and likely didn’t need to die, had Bibi not delayed, to shore up his domestic political base. To keep his government coalition, inside Israel.

But as I say (just as Scott and Bill Otis and Paul Mirengoff complain that the MSM in the US doesn’t tell the whole story)… while I do think Scott should mention that he is no less than a hero, it might be sensible to openly accept that his Israeli leadership… should voice an apology, for its part in ending his life.

Out.