Hostage deal versus continued fighting

What changed

In Statement A (May 2025), Lapid explicitly states that Israel is one cabinet meeting away from a hostage deal, implying there is a political obstacle — specifically that the government needs to convene and decide. In Statement B (October 2025), Lapid (via a retweet he endorsed) states that there is 'no political obstacle' in Israel to a hostage deal, which directly contradicts the framing of Statement A, where the implication is that the cabinet's failure to convene or decide IS a political obstacle. One statement frames the delay as a political/governmental failure, while the other explicitly denies any political obstacle exists.