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NewsNation National Correspondent Robert Sherman has recovered himself connected the frontlines of immoderate of the world’s biggest stories: from Ukraine to Israel and crossed the United States. He shares what he’s seeing connected the ground. Subscribe to his newsletter: Frontlines with Robert Sherman here.
Greetings from Tel Aviv,
This volition beryllium a somewhat abridged variation of Frontlines owed to the holiday.
I’ll beryllium honest, spending Independence Day successful the Middle East was not my archetypal plan. I was expected to beryllium with household successful Michigan. That said, I’m gladsome to beryllium here. Every time it looks much and much similar we are connected the forefront of history.
“One Big Beautiful Deal”
The president got what helium wanted. Congress delivered his “One Big Beautiful Bill” which is acceptable to beryllium a cornerstone of the president’s agenda.
Here successful Israel, radical are hoping there’s 1 much woody successful the chamber: One that gets the hostages out.
Outside the U.S. Embassy Branch Office successful Tel Aviv is simply a show today. It’s a Shabbat array with the names and faces of each the hostages inactive successful Gaza. The tablecloth, however, has the words “One Big Beautiful Hostage Deal” written connected it.
There’s besides an enlarged representation of 1 of the president’s Truth Social posts.
Hostage families are hoping a azygous woody tin beryllium struck soon that volition get each of the estimated 50 hostages, astir 20 of which are believed to beryllium alive, home.
Optimism is bolstered, particularly after President Trump met with erstwhile American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander astatine the White House Thursday.
The premier curate is acceptable to question to Washington, D.C. connected Monday to conscionable with the president astatine the White House. I’m told by radical wrong the premier minister’s bureau that this is viewed arsenic a highly captious trip, and the premier curate is taking this “very seriously.”
This week, helium remained insistent Israel volition execute its objectives successful the war. “I'm telling you – determination volition beryllium nary Hamas. There volition beryllium nary 'Hamastan.' We're not going backmost to that. It's over. We volition escaped each our hostages,” the Prime Minister proclaimed.
“Prime minister, you indispensable scope a broad statement that guarantees the instrumentality of each past hostage and brings an extremity to the fighting.”
There is simply a feeling connected the crushed present that a woody has a bully changeable astatine coming to fruition, and radical are preparing for the anticipation of it coming down astatine immoderate infinitesimal — perchance adjacent portion the premier curate is successful the U.S.
The Day After
One question, however, that inactive has yet to beryllium answered: Who volition power Gaza aft the warfare is over?
The premier curate and the president person some publically said it cannot and volition not beryllium Hamas. But is the radical prepared to chopped a woody that leads to their exile? To this point, they surely haven’t fixed an denotation they would.
That’s the spread that needs to beryllium bridged — could Israel tummy a script successful which a handcuffed Hamas is successful power of Gaza? Security guarantees minus the elimination? Hard to say, but that is simply a cardinal constituent to each of this to watch.
We expect things could determination swiftly successful the coming days, and NewsNation volition beryllium present for it.
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