Opposition Knesset Member compares Hamas threat to car accidents

State Camp MK Alon Schuster gave a speech today on the Knesset podium (Wednesday), where he compared the risk to Israeli citizens from a revived Hamas to the risk of dying from car accidents.

In a speech he gave today on the Knesset podium, State Camp MK Alon Schuster tried to explain the moral difference between concern for the remaining hostages and the danger to the State of Israel and its citizens from a resurgent Hamas.

As opposed to the hostages, whose names we know and whose dangers we are familiar with, Schuster argued, the risk of a resurgent Hamas is "distributed" amongst Israel's 10 million civilians, and no-one knows for sure who will be killed or wounded.

Schuster compared it to the risk everyone takes in going out onto the road every day and risking getting killed in a car accident, when their families would be orphaned.

According to Schuster, this is why Israel must free the hostages regardless of the cost, and that the government would receive all the backing it needed from the opposition and the people to this end.

Consistent polling in the last few months has shown very strong, almost unanimous support among voters for the opposition for freeing the hostages regardless of the government's other war aims, while voters for the coalition parties are more divided on the matter.