Instead of virtue signaling, Washington should stop enabling Tel Aviv's Gaza action

While Tel Aviv tried to compare its "successful" rescue of four hostages from Hamas in Gaza's Nuseirat camp on Saturday morning to the "Entebbe raid" of 1976, when Israeli commandos rescued more than 100 hostages in Uganda, many Israeli people are more realistic about the exploit that according to Hamas claimed at least 274 Palestinian lives including 64 children.

The haste with which the Israeli military disclosed the details of the "heroic" rescue, following the four hostages arriving home safe and sound on Saturday afternoon, shows how eager the Netanyahu government is to convince the Israeli people that it can deliver on its promise to free the hostages held by Hamas.

Yet despite some fleeting euphoria over the rescue, nationwide anti-war protests continued. Such protests have become a regular occurrence in Israel over the past months. The protesters are demanding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu step down accusing him of continuing the war in Gaza to hold on to power.