 All right. Let's start with the breaking news. It's happening as we speak. 13 Israelis have just been released by Hamas, and they just arrived in Israel. So congratulations to them, of course, and to their families, and to everybody who's been worried sick about them for the last month and a half. I mean, there's a big sigh of relief to see these people back home. Unfortunately, some of them are back home with no family because the family was murdered on October 7th. In addition to the 13 Israelis, 10 citizens of Thailand and one citizen of the Philippines, I haven't seen any breakdown on men, women, ages and stuff. But these are guest workers in Israel that were working in the south of Israel and were taking hostage. By the way, I think it was 36 Thai citizens were murdered on October 7th, just in this orgy of slaughter and mayhem and barbarism that took place. It wasn't even just Jews who got killed. It was anybody who worked for Jews, including Arabs, Muslims, a number of Muslims who were there, happened to be there, were working there in just communities, were killed on October 7th. Of the 13 that were released, let's see, five of them are older women, ranging in ages I see here from 72 to 85, which is surprising because I thought it would be mainly children and mothers. But it looks like they decided maybe it's just easier for them to older people, less medical care, less hassle for them. I don't know. But anyway, we got, no, 78 to 85 is so 72 to 85. So 72 to 85 year olds, six of them were released. We had four children, one of them age two, another one age four together with what looks like their mother age 34. And then a girl age six, who was released with her mother age 45, and another boy age nine, released with his mother 54. I mean, just give you a sense of who was kidnapped, right? I mean, they literally took babies, two year olds. We're still waiting, I guess, for the baby. There's a nine month old to be released. Maybe that'll be tomorrow or the day after. This is just the first batch of hostages to be released. There will be more over the next few days, a total supposedly over the four days of 50, with potentially more after that. Israel has released, I think, 39 women and teenagers as part of this, and they're releasing them to families and primarily the West Bank. I think, again, as we speak, that is happening. Ed reminds me there's a baby born in captivity, where's that baby? Hamas is just drawing them out, drawing this out, it gives them more cards, it gives them. And by the way, the Thai citizens that were released is primarily a result of the Thai governments negotiating heavily and really from October 8, I think, with the Iranian government. I don't know if Thailand has any leverage on Iran. I have no idea what is going on there, but the Thai government went directly to the Iranian government to negotiate this. There's a lot of Thai families that must be super relieved. Most of these captives were probably women and probably young, relatively young in the 20s, who come to Israel and work and send money home. And there's still, I think there's still 20 plus more Thai citizens and maybe others from Southeast Asia who are still being held by Hamas. So this was just, again, a first batch. And you know, you got to feel just a horror of those families in Thailand as well as the families in Israel who still haven't had their loved ones released. What else is there? We got a ceasefire. It'll go on for four days so far. The ceasefire is holding. I think Hamas will hold the ceasefire. I don't think they'll violate it. They've got every incentive basically to do this. It's an opportunity for them to regroup, to get a breather. A lot of supplies are coming in to Gaza. Hundreds of vehicles with supplies are bringing in supplies into Gaza. One wonders how many of them are smuggling weapons, but certainly the Hamas fighters themselves could benefit from the food and the oil and everything else that's being brought in. Maybe they'll even let some of the other Gaza civilians get some of those. So they will have four days to regroup. There is the potential that this will drag out for longer. And I'm going to guess that it will drag out for longer because Hamas have a clear incentive to drag this out as long as they can. If Hamas releases 10 prisoners every day, 10 hostages every day, Israel is committed to extending one day for every 10 that's being released. My guess is Hamas will do whatever it can to extend this as long as possible. Hamas wants Israel to give in. They want a, quote, negotiated settlement. They want to be perceived as the bringers of peace. And they have every incentive to continue to drag out the ceasefire as long as possible. Also, they know, as I know, as you know, as everybody in the world knows, but the Israeli government denies, this ceasefire is slowing the Israeli military's momentum. It reduces the probability that the job will get done ever, or at least in this round. And again, it gives Hamas an opportunity to regroup and to set more booby traps. And ultimately, the cost of the ceasefire will be in the lives of Israeli soldiers in the weeks and months to come, days and weeks to come. All right, so I've talked about the ceasefire before, so there's no point in me repeating too much of what I think about this moral travesty. My focus here is primarily on, look, in spite of the moral travesty, we have to all recognize and I recognize that it is wonderful that these people got to be freed from the clutches of Hamas. It is wonderful that they got to be reunited with their families. So, you know, you cannot but be happy for them, even whilst realizing that strategically having the ceasefire and releasing these hostages is an unmitigated disaster.