Hamas has repeated again that they expect to go to the terms of phase 2; and Israel, backed by the U.S., has said nothing will happen unless half the hostages are returned by this weekend. A senior Hamas official said that disarming is a red line that they will not cross; and that the "resistance" will continue until there are no Jews in Israel.

The Abu-Ali poll was released on Tuesday about what Israelis would like:

---9% were in favor of continuing negotiations for phase 2

---42% were in favor of advancing the Witkoff plan

---42% were in favor of returning to fighting

---7% dont know

This means that over 80% of Israelis want hostages returned immediately and are willing to go back to an escalated war in order to achieve that goal.

On college campuses, another type of "war" is about to start. On Tuesday, Donald Trump said that all federal funding would stop for colleges and schools that allow "illegal" protests and that agitators would be imprisoned or sent back to the country they came from. "American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested," Trump said in a Truth Social post.

In conjunction with that assignment on campuses, the Federal Task Force on Anti-Semitism, led by Leo Terrell, announced that they would be visiting 10 campuses that have been accepting anti-Semitic behavior: George Washington Univ., Harvard, John Hopkins, NYU, Northwestern, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Univ. of Minnesota, and USC. They will be meeting with the university administration at each school to fight campus Jew hatred.

May these challenges in Israel and here on college campuses be resolved in favor of Jewish college students, and may the Nation of Israel always be kept safe and protected.