The run-up to the 1981 presidential inauguration was complicated by the on-going captivity of 52 American hostages in Iran. Forty-four years later, the scenario is replaying itself as Hamas operatives continue to hold about 100 remaining Israeli hostages, despite their complete defeat in a war that Hamas initiated. While the US hostages remained prominent in the news, their Israeli counterparts are now rarely mentioned, even though they have been held for an equivalent time, in what must be even more difficult conditions.
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