Just for today, let's not think about what we paid for this crazy deal

There will be time for debate. Time for analysis. Time for weighing costs and consequences. But not today.

Today, we watched Agam and Arbel and Gadi emerge from darkness into light, her feet touching Israeli soil after 482 days of captivity. Today, we saw their eyes squint against a sun they probably haven't seen in sixteen months.

The world churns with questions. About prices paid. About precedents set. About what this means for tomorrow's conflicts. Even now, analysts' fingers fly across keyboards, politicians clear their throats, strategists punch numbers into calculators, all of them ready to tell us what this moment really means.

We choose not to listen. Not today.

Tomorrow will come with its complexities. Tomorrow we'll wrestle with the hard questions this deal forces us to face. Tomorrow we'll rejoin the endless debate about justice, about security, about what price is too high for peace.

But today – today belongs to Agam and Arbel and Gadi. To the seven others who've found their way back over these past two weeks. To the three families who will feel their world become whole again before sunset. To our Thai friends whose loved ones are also tasting freedom. Today belongs to mothers and fathers holding children they thought lost forever, to siblings touching faces they've seen only in dreams for the past year and a half.

Call us naive. Say we're turning our backs on reality. Tell us there's no way to separate the joy of return from the weight of what was traded for it.

Maybe you're right.

But we've spent 482 days counting every minute. Reading every report until our eyes burned. Gaming out every scenario until we couldn't sleep. We've earned this. We've earned one day where joy doesn't need to be qualified.

Yes, the complicated tomorrow is coming. The debates will ignite. The questions will demand their answers. The costs will need to be tallied.

But just for today, let us have this moment. Let us have this joy, pure and complete. Let us have this reunion without measuring its weight in geopolitics. Let us have this miracle without calculating its price.

Because today, our grandfather and daughter and sister came home. And just for today, the world can wait outside.

Just for today, nothing else matters.