, which has grappled with unrelated delays of its own recently.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert during an interview with The Associated Press in his office in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert during an interview with The Associated Press in his office in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Public opinion polls show that most Israelisin exchange for the release of the remaining 58 hostages held by Hamas, around a third of whom are said to be alive.Opponents of the war have tended to focus on concerns over the fate of the remaining hostages and the risk of soldier casualties in a campaign that many feel has run its course.

While Olmert disputed Golan’s choice of words, he said the essence of his remarks “reflects what many people think.”, in which 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage, Israelis rallied behind the military. They saw the war as a just response to the deadliest attack in Israel’s history. Many Israelis cannot imagine a future where Hamas remains intact.

Israel’s retaliatory war in Gaza has killed more than 53,000 people, mostly women and children, according to local health authorities, whose count doesn’t differentiate between combatants and civilians. The fighting has displaced 90% of the territory’s roughly 2 million population, sparked a hunger crisis and obliterated vast swaths of Gaza’s urban landscape.

While international media coverage has largely focused on the war in Gaza and its toll on civilians there, in Israel the media still devotes heavy attention to the Oct. 7 attack itself and the hostage crisis. Photos of those still held captive line the streets.We’re nearing the end of Phase Five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with predictable and underwhelming returns. “Captain America: Brave New World” feels like it’s just treading water, wasting

in his first cinematic outing as his “Hamlet”-like Captain America.The story by Rob Edwards, Malcolm Spellman and Dalan Musson gathers familiar Marvel characters and blends them into a White House conspiracy-meets-international violent face-off in the Indian Ocean. Only Marvel in Phase Five could make that boring.

It lifts from “The Manchurian Candidate” and “Top Gun” and even pointlessly steals its title from Aldous Huxley. It cannibalizes from other Marvel movies, like the addition of a substance called Adamantium, much like Vibranium from Wakanda. There is asong heard at the climactic end, but it’s not new; it’s from 2014.