Jerusalem: This did not go the way Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wanted.

On Monday, the Israeli leader won a peace plan from President Donald Trump that promised him total victory, in the form of a take-it-or-leave-it message to Hamas. The militant group would have to release all the Israeli hostages remaining in the Gaza Strip within 72 hours, lay down its arms and surrender any role in the territory’s future – or Israel would be given a free hand to pursue the group’s destruction.

On Friday, responding to a new ultimatum from Trump, Hamas announced that it was ready to release all the hostages. But it said nothing about how soon it would do so, demurred on laying down its arms and said it wanted to “discuss the details” of Trump’s plan.

To Senator Lindsey Graham, a close

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