I’m in Tel Aviv now. Many Israelis still expect live hostages to be released, and accuse Netanyahu of insufficiently capitulating to ensure that it happens.
You see, it’s Bibi’s fault. To them.
It's sad they never took to heart, the lessons from WWII, where those who thought that cooperating with the Nazis would save their lives.
* "A Jew with a job, is a Jew with a future."
*That was a direct quote from Jacob Gens, the Chief of the Jewish Ghetto Police in the Vilnius Ghetto (now Lithuania) in 1943. He firmly believed that accommodating the Nazis would keep Jews alive. The resistance fighters in Vilnius warned him that the Jews he was rounding up for the "work camps" were going to their deaths. He didn't believe them. Nor did those who willingly went along with being rounded up. They rejected joining the resistance because they didn't want retribution if they fought back. When Gens ended up 200 people short for the quota of Jews demanded by the Nazis, he ordered the 200 new Jewish auxiliary police he'd recently sworn in, to head to the ghetto gate to meet with the person who would take them to the Jews that were hiding. When they got there, they were surrounded by German soldiers, realizing that they were the ones filling the required quota, and would be sent to "work camps" in Estonia.
In September of 1943, the eradication of that Ghetto was announced. On September 13th, Gens was arrested by the Gestapo because he failed to turn in the resistance fighters he knew were in the Ghetto. He was shot the next day.
Several of those Vilnius resistance fighters survived the war, and went to live in Israel.