The Religion of the Hostages: How Israel’s Left Fell Into Netanyahu’s Gaza Trap"
While calling for a hostage deal at any cost, Israel’s left is playing directly into Netanyahu’s hands, prolonging the war, empowering Hamas, and sacrificing both Palestinians and Israelis in the name of a dangerous political faith.
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The truth must be told to those who ask Israel to withdraw and surrender to Hamas’s demands. Since this is impossible, unacceptable, and immoral, there is no choice but to continue bombing Gaza, and thus your hostages are paid for in the lives of Gaza’s children.
It must also be told to them, frankly, that Israel is currently refusing or not pushing to open the border and allow Gazans to leave the Strip, which makes the situation even harder.
And yet, it seems that the left’s obsession with the hostages, which serves Netanyahu politically by allowing him to appear right-wing while actually being left-wing, kills Arab children just like their obsession with the Oslo accords in the decades before.
In both cases, we have the “religion of peace” and the “religion of the hostages,” in whose name anything is permissible by the Israeli-left playbook.
Everyone will die for the religion, the Palestinian and the Jew alike, and all must be sacrificed for it.
Meanwhile, the Israeli government uses this religion to buy time and reap political gain.
The Gazans, of course, are powerless to do anything, since the Israeli government feeds and sustains Hamas in turn.
The reality is more tragic, complex, and morbid than ever. One would think that the left, ostensibly the responsible adult in the room, would stop with thisת but no.
And on the other hand, it falls into the political trap Netanyahu has set for it, dragging all of Israel into an intolerable delay in the Gaza arena, which in turn drags us all into the trap of international public opinion.
A shame, when all of this could have been resolved quickly and easily long ago through a physical rescue attempt, full conquest, and rapid expulsion.