For Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government, the answer is a quick and emphatic “no.” Or at least it’s a “no” as long as Hamas, the terrorist organization that committed the worst attack in Israel’s history, continues to hold the approximately 240 or so hostages it captured on Oct. 7. As Netanyahu stressed on U.S. television last week, “there’ll be no ceasefire, general ceasefire, in Gaza without the release of our hostages.”