Adi Alexander told the president that more than 55 hostages were believed to be alive at the time. 

The contempt the Zionists feel for anyone who isn't a Jew is just appalling.

Here we have an excellent example of -one- of the reasons the US seems to be the dog being wagged. Trump (and Biden and Obama etc.) doesn't care about Israel -- he cares about the money the associates and descendants of Meyer Lansky will donate to his political campaigns (or to his personal bank accounts).

Israel is not the tail wagging the dog. It is Meyer Lansky's National Crime Syndicate and the money they generate through crime that gets appropriately laundered and "donated" to American politicians. AIPAC exists to support Lansky's crime organization.

(This is not to let the Boston Brahmins off the hook for their crimes, rather to explain what appears to be the "driving force" in the American Oligarchy at this point in history.)