Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s mother: Maybe our hope lulled leaders into complacency

10 October 2024, 11:16 pm

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Rachel Goldberg expresses her fear that the hope that the hostage families tried to exude that their loved ones could be returned might have lulled decision-makers into complacency.

“Maybe part of our hope was too infectious, too positive during a dark time, that it even made the people who were at the table and the people with power to believe everyone’s coming home — [that] everybody [could] just calm down [because] they’re coming home. It’s just going to take some time,” she tells Channel 12 in an interview.

“Now that we know how they were found, it is so vastly obvious that there is not one second to waste. We need to move now. There are people today, as we’re sitting here talking, who are in those same conditions, and it’s probably gotten worse.”