Half a year into the war, and promises of total victory look more like a complete failure to return 133 abductees who are still in captivity. The testimonies from the negotiation teams at "Ovda" connected the dots to a clear conclusion: a cool wind is blowing from the Prime Minister's office, piling up difficulties and introducing goats into the talks.

"They can bring them back and they don't do it," they said, and when Dayan pressed, the "they" became a "head" with a straight line to one address: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the cool wind that blows from his office and brings in ants and heaps difficulties on All the initiatives and proposals of the negotiation team. The evidence from the inside, in fact, connected all of these to one clear conclusion, with a professional gushepanka: the Israeli government, and its leader, is not doing everything to return the person it abandoned on October 7. With the completion of the departure of most of the fighting forces from Gaza this week, the slogans of absolute victory have also been emptied of content.