william yvonne is a known residence fellow at the middle east council on global affairs. he joins us from montreal. welcome to the program. do you believe this stage of the season will hold and that the swap will take place? it all indications are that the 2nd change of captives this weekend will take place. and then there are of course, supposed to be several more during the 1st stage of disagreements and at the same time, negotiations are expected to be ongoing for a 2nd. and eventually 3rd stage, what i think is important to recognize is decisions about whether to continue with disagreement or whether that will be derailed by israel, or the decisions that will be made not by israel, but by the united states. just as the united states compelled israel to accept this agreement precisely the same agreement that it had been projecting with the support of the previous biden administration. for the better part of a year, washington will now also have to take a decision about whether it is in the us interest to continue with the implementation of disagreement, or whether it's