First, read what Binyamin Netanyahu said last night:

The outline that has been achieved does not include the release of murderers. It does include visits by Red Cross representatives to the hostages and the delivery of medicines to them. I heard that there is someone denying this. The Red Cross says that it has not heard; then here is the explicit clause: 'The Red Cross will be allowed to visit the remaining hostages and provide them with needed medicine.' I expect the Red Cross to do its work.

We went out for an Indian last night. So I missed the news conference our prime minister gave – though that is a fib. I did not miss hearing our prime minister talk balderdash.

Based on information in the public domain (11 AM Israel time Thursday), it is possible some of the captives held by Hamas and other Palestinian criminal gangs in Gaza may be dead.

It is conceivable that Israel agreed to a deal without knowing what it agreed to.

The Netanyahu-Ganz government does not know how many captives are being held in Gaza. It did not insist the Red Crescent or Red Cross FIRST visit the hostages before agreeing to any deal. It did not demand - as a starting point - a verified comprehensive list of all the captives and their condition.

Some reports claim that Hamas provided a list that gave names, sex, and nationality but not for all the captives to be released. And that it gave no information on any of them about whether they are alive.

Other sources say Hamas didn’t hand over any detailed list of the “first group” of captives.

One way or the other, our prime minister announced that he and Benny Ganz had agreed to a deal. They published a list of 300 Palestinian Arabs in Israeli prisons on a potential release list – attempted suicide bombers, attempted murderers, and Molotov cocktail throwers. Releasing these wanna-be-killers gives Hamas a claimable win.

Agreeing to a ceasefire gives Hamas time to reorganize. It makes it nearly impossible to restart the military campaign. It either dooms any captives not initially released or allows them to be used to stretch out a truce indefinitely. As in Ron Arad indefinitely.

Israelis were told when this war started that Hamas would not be a threat when it was over. 

More and more, that is beginning to seem like more Netanyahu balderdash.