In this regard, colder calculation and less emotional thinking in Israeli society are necessary
The increasingly shrill and even violent demand by protesters that the Netanyahu government cut “any” deal for “all” the hostages to be released “now” is perhaps understandable from a personal perspective (especially when it comes from hostage families) but it is questionable from national and strategic ones
I certainly do not accept the most recent slogan of protesters that brands the government,
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a “war criminal” government unless it “immediately” (and miraculously) obtains the release of “all hostages now, now, now, now!”
The streets of Tel Aviv and the front pages of almost all newspapers are plastered with this new slogan,
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“A government that doesn’t obtain all hostage release now is a war criminal government”
This echoes the worst defamatory language of Israel’s enemies everywhere: the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity
