Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu created a War Cabinet to help make executive decisions about the ground offensive in Gaza, and he brought in three people from outside his own political party. One of them, Gadi Eisenkot, has openly criticized Netanyahu’s strategy and neglect of the hostage issue. Meanwhile, families of the hostages broke into a Knesset committee meeting demanding that all government energy go toward freeing the hostages. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Ehud Eiran who was a foreign policy aide to former Prime Minister Ehud Barak and teaches international relations at Haifa University in Israel.
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