Commanders for Israel’s Security (CIS) has proposed to the government war cabinet to offer Hamas’s leadership expulsion, along with Palestinian security prisoners, in exchange for a return of their Israeli hostages.

Former IDF deputy chief Maj. Gen. and CIS chief (the group includes over 500 top former defense and intelligence officials ) Matan Vilnai clarified to the Jerusalem Post that there are significant details of the offer which the government would still need to iron out itself.

[Indeed, chief among them being who would take them? Not Egypt or Jordan, certainly, and likely not the Saudis either. But that puts the cart before the horse, because Hamas will never agree to it. — Ed]