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What a Hostage Deal Means for Netanyahu’s Fate

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Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire and hostage release deal on Wednesday .

The agreement is expected to see 33 Israelis in Gaza freed in the first 42-day phase, which starts on Sunday .

The rest will follow if a permanent end to the fighting comes in the second phase.

A deal should be a political win for Netanyahu , but he does not seem pleased.

The deal is extremely precarious and each phase is conditional on the previous one.

Trump might conceivably bring a Saudi normalization deal, perhaps a green light to annex some settlements in the West Bank .

In such a case Netanyahu could both reap some gain from the public for getting back hostages, while shoring up his base and political partners.

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