Beat. The reidout with joy reid starts now. Tonight on the reidout this is embarrassing for the Republican Party. Its embarrassing for the nation, and we need to look at one another and solve the problem. Kevin mccarthy imparting his limited wisdom to the caucus he briefly led as speaker. And with the world in crisis, republicans at this hour are beginning a game of speaker survivor. Were Behind Closed Doors a new batch of speaker wanna bes will be voted off the island one at a time. But we begin tonight with major developments in the middle east. More hostages released as the Israeli Ground assault on gaza looms. The two hostages identified as nurit cooper and Yocheved Lifshitz have been released by hamas. They released a video on their Legram Channel showing the two hostages apparently filmed bere and during their release. Heres a still from that video showing lifshitz, who is 85yes. Here they are, too, in a video shot by the Egyptian State tv network, showing them inside ambulances receiving medical treatment near the egypt gaza border. The Military Wing of hamas said they decided to release the pair for compelling humanitarian reasons. They have since been handed over to the Israeli Defense forces and are making their way at this time to a Medical Center in israel. Their Family Members will be waiting for them there. The release of the two hostages comes days after two americans judith and natali raanan, were released by hamas. The u. S. Is advising israel to delay a Ground Invasion of gaza to allow more time for hostage negotiations. But the death toll and widespread devastation continue. As israel steps up its aerial bombardment. As of today, more than 5,000 people have been killed in gaza. This includes 436 People Killed in israeli air strikes in the past 24 hours. Including 182 children, according to the Ministry Of Interior and National Security in gaza. Some International Aid has entered the gaza strip. Over the weekend, the first convoys entered the besieged palestinian enclave through the rafah Border Crossing with egypt. Trucks continue to enter today, but Health Officials warn that far more is needed to address the crisis. More than 1400 people have been killed in israel sthins october 7 attack. Mainly the civilians killed in the initial hamas assault. Today, the Israeli Government screened for 200 members of the Foreign Press some 43 minutes of harrowing scenes from the brutal hamas assault in southern israel on october 7th. The screening reportedly included raw videos from the body cams of the attackers as they went door to door in a kibbutz. Tonight, fears of a broader conflict are rippling inside gaza and israel, as well as in the region and throughout the world. It forces the question, what is the end game of an israeli war on gaza . Thomas friedman points out the dangers of an invasion in an unflinching oped in the New York Times. He writes, while President Biden expressed deep understanding of israels moral and strategic dilemma, he pleaded with Israeli Military and political leaders to learn from americas rush to war after september 11th. Which took our troops deep into the dead ends and dark alleys of unfamiliar cities and towns in iraq and afghanistan. However, from everything i have gleaned from senior u. S. Officials, biden failed to get israel to hold back. And think through all of the implications of an invasion of gaza for israel and the United States. So let me put this in as stark and clear language as i can, because the hour is late. I believe that if israel rushes head long into gaza now to destroy hamas and does so without expressing a clear commitment to seek a twostate solution with the Palestinian Authority and end jewish settlements deep in the west bank, it will be making a grave mistake that will be devastating for israeli interests and american interests. Joining me from tel aviv is correspondent hala gorani. Thank you for being here. Give us the latest, and i understand you have some reporting on the latest about these released hostages. Reporter yes, i can report that qatar and egypt both led negotiations. They have been especially qatar very diplomatically active with regards to getting these hostages released because as many of our viewers know, they host the political leaders of hamas in doha, the capital of qatar. Qatar has been able to negotiate because it also has very close relations with the United States. One of the Largest Military bases u. S. Military bases in the region is located in qatar. Egypt also took part. These two hostages were released through the rafah border into egypt. You mentioned their names. Yocheved lifshitz and nurit cooper. They were placed in ambulances. They then switched vehicles and were driven to the crossing which is not far away at all in israeli territory and now are being medclal processes before being reunited with their families. The big question is going to be going forward, will we see more of this drip, drip Hostage Release . Hamas seems to be addressing not just the governments of the region, not just the Prime Minister of israel, but also the israeli public, by saying look, so long as theres no incursion, every couple days, every three days, maybe there will be a Hostage Release and the families of the hostages have been putting a lot of pressure on the israeli leadership, asking them to delay this incursion until more hostages are out. And as far as the u. S. President , President Biden, is concerned, there is also some pressure placed on Prime Minister netanyahu to try to get more humanitarian aid in, joy. So were going to be watching, but it looks so far as though this long anticipated Ground Incursion is on hold at least for now. Hala gorani, thank you very much. Great reporting. Lets bring in ben rhodes, msnbc political analyst, and ayman mohyeldin, Oes Of Ayman On Msnbc and who covered the Israeli Palestinian conflict as a foreign correspondent. This is the perfect duo to talk about this with. I want to start, ben, with the qatar egypt part of it. Because obviously, it is qatar that is the one who provides the actual money that funds the west bank. Sorry, not the west bank, but gaza. So theyre very involved. What do you make of the fact they were the Negotiating Partners to get the hostages out, and what does that mean for whether an incursion will be delayed or go forward . I dont think theres anything particular surprising about it. Hamas has remained in qatar for some time. It provides a capacity to have these types of sensitive conversations. The taliban also had an office in qatar for a long time. There are also ways to pass messages through the egyptians. Im sure Tony Blinkens agenda in qatar was mainly focused on the hostages and the qataris are you want to release all of them, could we start with women and children and the elderly . Could we perhaps get the americans out . Theres different formulas to get people out. That said, it doesnt change the underlying dynamic which is the question of whether or not theres going to be a fullscale Ground Invasion of gaza that would put all this to the side in some fashion. Sure, i think qatar is trying to forestall that a bit by what theyre doing. At the end of the day, that decision rest would the Israeli Government. I dont suspect that hamas would release all of these hostages in the kind of timeframe that is in advance of israeli Decision Making about the Ground Invasion. Can you talk about egypts politics here . I did watch a translated version of the egyptian president speaking about this and essentially saying bluntly, were not going to open this crossing because theyre not going to be allowed to go back. The crown prince of saudi arabia said something very similar. Let me play it, i think we have it. This is saudi crown prince, condemning hamas. Condemning what happened, but also condemning the violence in gaza. Take a listen. I categorically condemn hamas targeting of civilian targets of any age or gender as it is accused of. Such targeting belies hamass claims to identity, but equally, i condemn israels indiscriminate bombing of palestinian innocent civilians in gaza and the attempt to forcibly drive them. I condemn the israeli targeted killing and the indiscriminate arrest of palestinian children, women, and men in the west bank. Two wrongs dont make a right. Let me correct myself, hes the former ambassador to d. C. Ayman, can you talk about the local arab countries politics, egypt and saudi arabia . Its important to add one more, that was the king of jordan who spoke in Plain English over the weekend to a western audience at this peace summit that the Egyptian Government was trying to create a little momentum behind. Look, the consensus among the arab countries right now as it pertains to the refugees or possible refugees of palestinians from gaza into the Sinai Peninsula is a categorical no. That stems really from the historical trauma of palestinians being forced off their land in 1947, 48, 1967, in which palestinians were not allowed to return back to their homes and have lived as secondclass citizens in many countries precisely because the arab countries have felt if tay were to absorb them in their populations, to accept them and give them full rights, they would be somehow conceding the fundamental right of palestinians to return. That is a point the egyptian president made clear, saying if this was purely about humanitarian reasons, israel could provide a corridor into the west bank. It could create for them refugee tents inside the desert, inside israel proper, if you will, and when the operation is over, they could return to gaza. The idea of allowing palestinians to come into the Sinai Peninsula in addition to providing Security Concerns for the egyptians and putting an already fragile economy under tremendous amount of stress for the president of egypt, its just a matter of principle that egyptian and arab governments do of the past. Repeat the mistakes thats what you heard from prince fazl who was the head of saudi intelligence for almost 22 years and i can assure that speech he gave reflected some of the internal thinking of the current crown prince and certainly the current leadership of the saudi government. Lets go back to, because the issue of gaza, ben rhodes, and whether or not people are purged from there, as ayman points out, its an important issue because we still have to, as Thomas Friedman said, deal with the questions of occupation and what happens to the land. I want to read from you from the times of israel. Their assessment of the way tanyahu has dealt with palestinians in the past. Most of the time, the israeli policy was to tat the Palestinian Authority as a burden and hamas as an asset. Far right said so himself in 2015. According to various ports, netanyahu made a similar point at a likud faction meeting in early 2019 when he was quoted as saying those whoapone a palest sta should support the transfer of funds to Gaza Becauseaintaining the separationen the Palestinian Authority in the west bank and hamas in gaza would prevent the establishment of a palestinian state. They have a piece today about how a lot of that money was passed through qatar. Where does Prime Minister netanyahu stand visavis his own interactions with hamas and what seems to be boosting them as a way of preventing there from ever being a twostate solution . Well, thats a really big question right now. I will tell you in my experience, Prime Minister netanyahu kind of repeatedly undermined if not humiliated the Palestinian Authority. Peace talks have led to nowhere. Peace talks followed by really aggressive Settlement Announcements that made Mahmoud Abbas look feckless. To be clear, the Palestinian Authority has plenty to answer for itself. Theres plenty of krupg there, that kind of money coming in from qatar and other places has a way of not finding its way to the people. But its clear that there wasnt certainly an effort to build up the Palestinian Authority on the part of the Prime Minister and at times an effort to kind of undermine them and humiliate them. At the same time, hamas was involved in some negotiations, over 1,000 palestinian prisoners were released in exchange for an israeli soldier taken by hamas. That in some ways bolstered their standing. But look, all that is past and the question is going forward, there is a question of what is the end goal of this operation if it goes forward . Is it to displace 2 Million People from gaza or a significant chunk of people from gaza and create another permanent class of Palestinian Refugees in ways that are changing the demographics in what i think some israelis would refer to as greater israel, as a means of putting a twostate solution out of reach . Or is the outcome that is sought an alternative palestinian leadership on the other end of this . One that is not hamas . Absolutely, but that is either a strengthened Palestinian Authority or something different, perhaps drawing on the resources from these very wealthy arab states that frankly bear for responsibility themselves pause they were cutting the palestinians out of Normalization Deals with israel too. There has to be an answer to this question of what is palestine . Is this a twostate solution or something we want to kind of push out of the way . There are clearly some in the Netanyahu Coalition who dont want a palestinian state. They have said as much. This is not me opining. Thats stair stated policy. There are many in israel who want peace with their neighbors. Prime minister netanyahu has tried to bob and weave between the camps but hes usually come down on the side of the right. Last word to you, ayman, is there anyone in the region who authentically speaks for the Palestinian People on this question . Is it Mahmoud Abbas . Is he somebody who could essentially be a solution if the p. A. Was to take over control of gaza . Look, the short answer to that, and we see this time and time again, is no, it is not Mahmoud Abbas. It is not the Palestinian Authority. Not because of the conceptual framework but because of the kurpt leadership of the Palestinian Authority. I think its necessary to put a finer point on that. Israel has not wanted a unified Palestinian Authority. That has been clear. There have been multiple agreements between hamas and fatah to try to hold elections but the Israeli Government which for all intents and purposes controls even politically what can happen in the west bank in terms of rallies, campaigns, elections, has refused to allow that to take place, and palestinians have refused to participate in any Sham Election that does not include east jerusalem. As a result of that, the fractured palestinian Political Landscape is exactly what israel has wanted and sought for the past several years. We could do this for an hour. Im going to have to ask you both to come back. Benn rhodes, amen mohuh teen, thank you. Up next, here we go again. Right now, House Republicans are once again attempting to choose a new speaker. One of these guys, most of whom attempted to overturn the 2020 election, finally fill the seat that has been empty for a recordbreaking 20 days . The reidout continues after this. If you struggle. And struggle. And struggle with cpap. 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