{"id":11030,"date":"2024-05-01T11:54:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T11:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/?p=11030"},"modified":"2024-05-01T11:55:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T11:55:49","slug":"far-right-minister-claims-hostage-deal-throws-war-goals-in-trash-to-save-hostages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/ar\/far-right-minister-claims-hostage-deal-throws-war-goals-in-trash-to-save-hostages\/","title":{"rendered":"Far-right minister claims hostage deal throws war goals in \u2018trash\u2019 to save hostages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SAM SOKOL<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Settlements and National Projects Minister Orit Strock sparked fierce criticism on Wednesday when she rejected the \u201cterrible\u201d hostage deal currently being negotiated in Egypt and said that its approval would be tantamount to a betrayal of IDF soldiers and Israel\u2019s war aims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are \u201csoldiers who left everything behind and went out to fight for goals that the government defined, and we throw it in the trash to save 22 people or 33 or I don\u2019t know how many,\u201d the far-right minister told Army Radio. \u201cSuch a government has no right to exist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Condemning Strock, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid tweeted that \u201ca government with 22 or 33 extremist coalition members has no right to exist,\u201d while Minister Chili Tropper of National Unity, who sits with Strock in the cabinet, accused her of insensitivity toward the hostages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether one supports the deal or not, \u201cthe fundamental Jewish precept that \u2018whoever saves a single life, it is as if he saved an entire world\u2019 should spare us obtuse and blunt statements regarding the terrible suffering of the hostages and their families, like the words of Minister Orit Strock,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Jewish path is more humane and sensitive to human life than those who sometimes seek to speak on its behalf.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement, the Movement for Quality Government in Israel called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fire Strock, declaring that \u201cIsrael now needs unity and not division, responsibility and not political populism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Protesters block Begin Road in front of the Kirya Military Headquarters in Tel Aviv as they call for the release of the hostages, April 30, 2024. (Dafi Cohen\/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is no place for someone who adheres to an extremist ideology at the expense of human life, and we call on the prime minister to fire Minister Strock immediately,\u201d the watchdog group demanded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shir Siegel, whose father Keith Siegel<\/a> is being held hostage in Gaza, described Strock\u2019s words as expressing \u201cdisdain for human life at the highest levels,\u201d in a statement cited by the Haaretz daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich addresses the media following a meeting of his Religious Zionism faction in the Knesset, April 30, 2024. (Sam Sokol\/Times of Israel)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

His announcement on Tuesday came shortly after National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said, following a private meeting with the prime minister, that Netanyahu had promised not to agree to a \u201creckless\u201d hostage deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Responding to Ben Gvir and Smotrich, National Unity Minister Gadi Eisenkot, an observer in the war cabinet, slammed what he described as political blackmail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calling their actions \u201ca serious phenomenon that harms Israel\u2019s national security,\u201d Eisenkot asserted that he \u201cwill only be a partner in a government that makes decisions based on the national interests of the State of Israel, and not on political considerations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smotrich hit back at Eisenkot, calling for him to show \u201ca little humility,\u201d and adding that it was his \u201cduty to act against a bad deal that will endanger the security of the citizens of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Eisenkot condemned Smotrich and Ben Gvir\u2019s threats, National Unity leader Benny Gantz earlier this week used similar language, saying that if the government rejects a hostage deal backed by the security services, it will \u201chave no right to continue to exist<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Source: Times of Israel)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SAM SOKOL Settlements and National Projects Minister Orit Strock sparked fierce criticism on Wednesday when she rejected the \u201cterrible\u201d hostage deal currently being negotiated in Egypt and said that its approval would be tantamount to a betrayal of IDF soldiers and Israel\u2019s war aims. There are \u201csoldiers who left everything behind and went out to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":11031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,307,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-172","category-main-news","category-palestinian-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11033,"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11030\/revisions\/11033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}