Kiddush at the Hatofim square, February 23, 2024/Hatofim families headquarters
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich claimed today that he would vote against a hostage deal, if it involved an end to the fighting in the Gaza Strip. ' to journalist Amit Segal at a conference held in Jerusalem.
"I am opposed to a deal where the keys to freeing terrorists in exchange for bigger hostages, the truce is bigger. It makes no sense."
"It turns out to be an absurd situation, we are begging and pressing, at any cost and here and now, and Hamas is sitting on the fence, and the reality is completely opposite. Logic requires that the upcoming deal be on even better terms, because we crushed Hamas even more, and Sinwar should now be sitting in his hole in a sense of surrender and breaking," the minister stated.
We will not patrol the streets with terrorists, we did it with Gilad Shalit and now we are paying the consequences
." Because according to him "Hamas needs to be destroyed, it is very important, but saying 'at any cost' is a problem.
We need to return the kidnapped and put pressure on Hamas."
Bezalel Smotrich/Reuven Castro
"Look at how much fire I caught last week for saying the most logically correct thing, but as presenters in the news and crying and saying that everything is screwed up and everything is bad, I say I don't know what world you live in. The people of Israel are revealing themselves in all their strengths. But they say the most important moment is this The abductees, I said are important, the abductees are not the most important. I am one of the few who had the courage to say that the majority of the public thinks, and the attack is not against me but against the entire public that I represent."
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