This hostage deal is Biden’s victory. It’s also Biden’s shame.
The sitting president put months of work into this deal, but he also let this war drag on, and on, and on
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Opinion This hostage deal is months too late — because people like me believed Netanyahu’s lies
As we celebrate this ceasefire, we must also own all the failures that preceded it
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Fast Forward ‘We’ve been speaking as one team’: Gaza ceasefire-hostage deal is a rare bipartisan victory in US politics
As Biden secures a foreign policy win, Trump’s team claims the deal signals a new era of tough diplomacy
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Opinion Why is Netanyahu poised to OK a ceasefire that’s favorable to Hamas? One word: Trump
An emerging deal would return hostages — and leave Hamas in power in Gaza
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Fast Forward List of hostages for potential release circulates as pressure mounts for ceasefire deal
Israel cautioned that the list did not reflect any agreement with Hamas
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Fast Forward In exit interview, Secretary of State Blinken reflects on U.S.-Israel tensions and the struggle for a ceasefire in Gaza
‘Hamas, when they saw Israel under pressure publicly, they pulled back,’ Blinken said
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News Israel reached a ceasefire in Lebanon. Why does Gaza seem so hard?
Biden wants to use the momentum to get a ceasefire in Gaza before he leaves office on Jan. 20.
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Fast Forward Senior Biden aide celebrates Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire in call with Jewish leaders
Amos Hochstein, the U.S. envoy to the Middle East, said the truce opens door for a hostage deal in Gaza
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