Shimon Or, the uncle of hostage Avinatan Or who has been held by terrorists in Gaza for 500 days, lashes out at the government for approving the ongoing phased hostage deal with Hamas, likening Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Jewish collaborators with the Nazis during World War II.
Or’s family is part of the hawkish Tikva Forum, which opposes hostage deals and calls for them to be freed via forceful pressure on Hamas.
“Look me in the eyes,” Shimon Or tells Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter (Likud) at the Knesset Finance Committee. “You know not all hostages will be freed, you know Hamas.”
Avinatan Or, whose girlfriend Noa Argamani was rescued from Gaza in a daring IDF raid, isn’t slated for release during the ongoing first phase of the ceasefire-hostage deal.
“The prime minister is sending a delegation to discuss the second phase even though he knows they won’t be released,” Shimon Or charges. “You were part of a surrender deal that is killing the hostages, including Avinatan.
“The prime minister is behaving like a Judenrat in the Holocaust, saying ‘we’ll save those we can,'” he adds, arguing that US President Donald Trump “knows that an ultimatum is the only way to get them today.”
The Judenrat was a Nazi-imposed Jewish administrative body that purported to represent European Jews, but in practice was used to ensure Nazi policies were being enforced.
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