Rachel Goldberg-Polin: Six Months Without the Release of All Hostages Is a Complete Failure on Everybody’s Part

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GOLDBERG-POLIN: “And remember, Margaret, we have eight American citizens who have been held for 184 days, and we are feeling extreme desperation, despair. And we've had wonderful access and sympathy and open doors and lots of hugs from everyone in the U.S. government, but this is a very binary situation. We want our people back, period. And that's what we're going to be talking tomorrow about is, what is actually going to be happening? What leverage, what levers need to be pulled in order to make this happen? Because six months is actually a complete failure on everybody's part. And I include myself in that as a parent, that I have not been able to save my son. And I don't know — I think that you're a parent, anyone who is a parent, can appreciate our job is to keep our children safe. And when they get in a situation when they're not safe, our job is to save them. And I feel that I have failed and I feel that our governments have failed and I feel that all the parties at the table have failed to get these 133 souls back home."