Israel Offers Hamas Leader Safe Route Out of Gaza

<![CDATA[Despite an almost complete lack of progress in the stalled ceasefire talks in Gaza, not all of the players involved have thrown up their hands entirely. Even the White House, desperately seeking a way to make Joe Biden look like the heroic peacebringer in this quagmire has been scaling back expectations recently. Yet Israel's Coordinator for Hostages and the Missing, Gal Hirsch, is still pitching ideas to achieve some progress. This weekend, he told CNN that he had hatched a plan that he wanted to pitch directly to Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. If Sinwar agreed to release all of the remaining hostages peacefully, Hirsch said that he would assure him personally of safe passage out of the Gaza Strip as soon as all of the hostages were accounted for. While this would definitely be an easier "gift to offer" as compared to the full withdrawal of all IDF forces from the Strip, what possible motivation would Sinwar have for accepting such a proposal?]]>