The hidden costs of Israel’s negotiations with Hamas
The Jerusalem Post by David M. Weinberg 14 February 2025

Extracts:
  • reckless deals with Hamas
According to this unbalanced internal discourse, amplified by around-the-clock television reporting that is uniformly vicious towards Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing/haredi coalition, the Israeli government is now guilty of war crimes not only against the Palestinians but against its own people

According to this unbalanced internal discourse, the 76 remaining hostages held alive and dead by Hamas in Gaza are not the only ones

All 9 million Israeli Jews have been taken hostage by Netanyahu:
1. hostage to his personal political fortunes,
2. hostage to his Trump-fed “delusions” of total victory

In my view, this is going many steps too far

Not every deprecatory assault is acceptable in the political campaign to drive Netanyahu out of office
Not every slanderous slogan is kosher even in the struggle for hostage freedom

And if we are talking in terms of 9 million hostages, I say that 9 million Israelis must not be taken prisoner, in further reckless deals with Hamas that will,
1. neither work for the hostages
2. nor bring security to the entire country