[UPDATE-Day 104-Jan 18-22:30Z] Israel-Hamas War: Real Time Reaction and Analysis

President Herzog answers Blinken At the World Economic Conference in Davos, where Blinken said yesterday that Israel needed to make decisions, the president replied, “When you withdraw, you accept terrorism” “Have the withdrawals proven themselves? Is the paradigm just withdrawals. They see that when we withdrew from Gaza, we accepted terrorism. This is a clear paradigm These are legitimate questions.” He added that work must be done to find ways to dialogue with the Palestinians and offer them peace. “But the basic question of every Israeli will be what guarantees our security. Before countries (U.S. – Israel) say ‘the two-state…