Ran Gvili’s return home – and Israel’s 843-day mission accomplished, accounting for every hostage while freeing 168 – should have united the nation.
Yet, four days later, the front page of Haaretz absurdly called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “responsible for… abandonment of the hostages.” Meantime, the government’s hostage negotiator Gal Hirsch mocked the hostage protest slogan “All of them – now,” saying, “there was no need to create a sense of urgency on our side.”
Moderate Me regrets Israelis’ inability to take victory laps with our left and right feet. How else can we avoid falling? And Historian Me has a politically-incorrect theory: the clashing strategies produced the miraculous result.
First, that winner’s lap: WE DID IT. As we mourn the hostages murdered, did anyone really expect that 168 would return home alive? And did anyone expect that Israel would find every hostage – with none lost amid Gaza’s rubble or purposely cemen
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