Chananya Weissman notices a real contradiction in my opinion:
1. On October 7 the IDF, a thoroughly Erev Rav-controlled entity, reportedly deployed the so-called Cannibal, er, Hannibal Directive, killing Jews to prevent them from being taken hostage. That’s the official claim.
2. In the following two years the IDF refrained from blowing up tunnels and fighting in areas where hostages were presumed to be, which greatly helped the Hamas mercenaries the Erev Rav feed and fund, and caused many more Jews to be maimed and killed. This was done to avoid killing the hostages the IDF didn’t manage to kill before they were taken in the first place. That’s the official claim.
These policies conflict. They will murder their own people to prevent them from being taken hostage, but once taken, they will bend over backwards to prevent them from being killed, no matter the cost? They will allow them to serve as human shields to protect the ones holding them? How does that make sense?
If you’re not willing to accept that the reason behind both policies is to advance the same agenda, which has nothing to do with protecting Jewish life, I challenge you to make it make sense.