Likud MK says 'absolute victory' in Gaza war will take one year

• Published date: 24 March 2024
• Author: 103FM
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Saada was asked if he understood the frustration of the families of the hostages, and he replied, "I can't understand them. I will never feel what they feel, but when I try to imagine, I understand what they feel daily. These are their children, brothers, and fathers; it is unbearable. I understand their frustration and their desire to protest

"Some people have gone through severe trauma from everything that happened on October 7. Therefore, their cry is the truest and most accurate reaction. Right now, unfortunately, Hamas for its own reasons, from its cruelty, from the desire to keep them as a bargaining chip, is piling up difficulties. Hopefully, we'll reach a solution. There are things we all agree on that can't be; it can't be that the war stops and we retreat. We will have the problem of losing security and deterrence.

Saada's predictions for the current war and Hamas's choices

"The only problem is that then, instead...