Benjamin Netanyahu just told hostage families and their supporters the unvarnished truth. Will that spell the end of his career? And will it spell the end of Hamas and the incentives for hostaging?
Netanyahu has to know he’s risking the former by attempting the latter. In the most direct remarks yet about his policy in the October 7 war, Netanyahu has told Israelis that the country’s strategic necessities outweigh the hostages Hamas holds:
“I am not sure that there will be a [hostage] deal,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Valor Forum – a group of families who have lost loved ones in the Israel-Hamas war, at a meeting Tuesday, the forum said.
The forum includes 150 families, and its goal is to “continue the mission started by their loved ones” by strengthening the government in the war against Hamas. The forum also strives to “support the continuation of the fighting in…
