Commentator Amit Segal addressed today (Tuesday), during a discussion in the Channel 12 studio, the statements made by Shin Bet chief David Zini in the political and security cabinet, according to which the threat of kidnappings increased following the kidnapping deals carried out during the war.
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Segal noted that Zini's position is not historically new, but it is new compared to the positions of the last three Shin Bet chiefs. "The newness here is not historically new, but it is new compared to the last three Shin Bet chiefs, that the current Shin Bet chief, David Zini, will not be in favor of similar deals, with the hope of course that we will not get to that point, although unfortunately history is unequivocal, and that he warns against the matter.".
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According to Segal, "Historically, for years, the Shin Bet has always been the more hawkish factor in the room when there were kidnapping deals, always claiming that this would encourage kidnappings, encourage terrorism, and inject more new blood into the terrorist organizations, literally. Yoram Cohen was the first Shin Bet head who, when the Shalit deal came up, basically said, 'We'll know how to deal with it.'".
Segal added: "After him comes Ronen Bar, of course it's a little different, because Ronen Bar is carrying the failure of October 7 on his back, and therefore the Shin Bet here was in quotation marks with a kind of conflict of interest. David Zini is returning the Shin Bet to where it should be. The body that says, not at any cost.".
He continued his remarks by referring to the price consideration of the kidnapping deals, saying that although the price of the kidnapped has decreased, this does not prevent the security damage. "The price of an Israeli kidnapped person has decreased dramatically compared to the Shalit deal. But this is 'poor comfort' because what those people say is that the destruction did not happen to them just because of the kidnapped people, it happened to them because they massacred 1,200 Israelis in one day.".
Segal emphasized: "If there had not been abductees, Israel would have ended the war much earlier and much more decisively. The fact that Hamas remained, even if only on 47 percent of the territory, stems from one reason and one reason only - because we wanted the abductees at home.".
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