00:00So, demonstrations were held in Israel this morning, with major roads targeted in and around both Jerusalem and Tel Aviv,
00:08demanding the war in Gaza to end, and a hostage deal.
00:12Does the Israeli government care about the growing opposition to its plans?
00:20First of all, great to be with you.
00:22Secondly, I would say that, of course, they care, everybody cares,
00:26but the options that we are faced with are all problematic,
00:30and the option that the demonstrators want the government to choose is the most problematic one,
00:37because it means that we are going to allow Hamas to stay in power and prepare for the next 7th of October.
00:42And this is a sort of an option that cannot be accepted by the government,
00:48and because of that, the government actually has two other options in front of them.
00:53One is to keep preparing and eventually execute the plan to take over Gaza City,
01:00in order to remove Hamas from power and hope that this pressure over Hamas would bring Hamas to start accepting the deal
01:09that would remove them from power and allow them to leave Gaza and release all the hostages.
01:16or a partial deal, in which we are going to get only part of the hostages, living hostages,
01:23and start the negotiations with Hamas about the final deal.
01:29These are the two options that are on the agenda from the point of view of the government,
01:34and the demonstrations don't mean that much to the government to change its position.
01:40Ma Sorting of a
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