Crush it: Amit Segal, the senior political commentator, confronted media figure Barak Sari during a discussion in the News 12 studio, regarding the issue of the hostage deal between Israel and Hamas.
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Sari claimed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is preventing the advancement of a deal for political reasons, he said, "contrary to all logic. I hear the threats from Smotrich and also from Ben Gvir, and I know that Netanyahu takes them quite seriously."
Segal asked in response, "What's the deal on the table?", and Sari replied, "The deal on the table is the same deal that was there all along, everything for everything, ending the war, getting out of the Gaza Strip until the end, accepting the hostages, that's on the table. Netanyahu is having a hard time with that."
Segal rejected this possibility, saying, "This is a reckless deal. If Israel goes ahead with this, it's not that Netanyahu has no reason to exist, a series of settlements on our southern border have no reason to exist. It will send a message to the entire region that you can murder Israelis, rape them, behead babies, and then return to exactly the same place you were on the eve of the war."
Segal added that "it won't help what story we told ourselves and how much we prepared and destroyed and lost. In the end, Hamas will be left standing. This also means that Hamas can arm itself again."
He said, "If anyone mistakenly thinks that then Israel will have the legitimacy to fight again, then let them think. When 1,200 Israelis were murdered, it gave us legitimacy for a certain time. So if anyone really thinks that the head of the southern arena in the Shin Bet will come and tell the prime minister, no matter who he is, Lapid or Bennett or Netanyahu, listen, we are now building a new lathe, we are now building a new tunnel, let's go in with all our might - then he is living in a movie."
Sari wondered what Israel could achieve in the future that has not already been achieved: "What will you do in a year that you haven't done in the last year and ten months, with such a Chief of Staff and such a Chief of Staff?"
Segal replied that "the goal of the war, which was not formulated by me but by Gadi Eisenkot and Benny Gantz, was to undermine Hamas's governmental and military capabilities."
Segal later claimed that the call for a comprehensive deal "is not a real proposal to end the war, because even those calling for a deal know that Hamas's proposal is unacceptable. If you listen to what Lapid and Bennett say, the proposal is unacceptable to them too. What they actually say is something else. Let's put an Israeli proposal on the table: the return of all the abductees, a perimeter on the Philadelphia border, an alternative government in which Hamas does not exist. That can be debated."
In conclusion, he said, "But when you ask those people, they say, 'And there's no one on the other side who would agree.'"
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