If you don't follow Israeli politics, Finance Minister Smotrich is a right wing nut job who has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism, is vehemently anti LGBTQ, proposed legislation weakening civil law to promote "Torah Law", aggressively pursued settlements in the West Bank as a form of ethnic cleansing, etc.
But he is in hot water now for saying that is not the most important thing to consider in the Gaza war.
Like a stopped calendar, I guess that he gets to be right once a year.
If you base your policies on getting hostages back, not only do you hamstring yourself, but you create a petri dish for hostage taking.
Hostage taking works as a tactic because the immediate response of the Israeli polity is that the first priority is to get the aforementioned hostages back safely.
This reflexive response is understandable, but it is also wrong.
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