While President Donald Trump has expressed confidence that Hamas will free about 20 hostages seized in the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, Ido Aharoni, a former Israeli consul general in New York, warned in a Newsmax interview Tuesday that expectations must be tempered.
“I don’t think that we can talk about peace with Hamas,” Aharoni, now the chair of the America-Israel Friendship League and a professor at Touro University, told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Early.”
“Compromise is not even a word in their vocabulary, so we have to be cautiously optimistic and prepare for the worst,” he said.
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