Sara Yael Hirschhorn, Gilad Halpern and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.

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—Rite of Return—

How and why did the images of the gaunt, shrunken, clearly-tortured hostages change something and cast into doubt the future of the present ceasefire agreement?

—Our Side, Their Side, Genocide—

What should we make of Historian Benny Morris’s warning that, if Palestinians and Israelis do not find to see in each other humans deserving of life, liberty and dignity, a genocide is inevitable (though just who kills whom is still up in the air)?

—Arguing With Celebs on Twitter—

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All that and an appreciation of Liri Albag. Plus, a new war record by Maor Ashkenazi.