Lapid: Hamas are Nazis, and not enough is being done to save the Jews

Opposition leader Yair Lapid at the Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony held at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, criticized the government's inaction regarding the release of hostages: "What is Holocaust Remembrance Day for if we still abandon Jews to die at the hands of Nazis? Return the hostages, otherwise they will end up as dead Jews."

"If Hamas are like the Nazis, then there are Jews being held by Nazis, and again no one is coming. No one is doing everything that needs to be done to save them."

In his speech, he mentioned his grandfather who was killed in the Holocaust and said we are programmed to think things will turn out well in the end. This isn't always true. In many cases, it ends badly. The decisive factor is time. The longer we wait, the greater the chance it will end badly. If we don't act in time, when it's still possible, people die.

In the concentration camp, in the ghetto, in the labor camp, in the death marches, in the tunnels of Gaza - if you wait too long, if you don't do what needs to be done, the angel of death understands that his turn has come. He will take those left behind. He will take those who were abandoned.

Right after October 7th, the statement that was repeated over and over was "Hamas are like the Nazis," "Hamas are the new Nazis." I didn't like this comparison and didn't use it.

I want to use it now. If Hamas are like the Nazis, then there are Jews being held by Nazis, and again no one is coming. No one is doing everything that needs to be done to save them.

We tell ourselves, "It's not the same, we have a state, we're not in the Holocaust." If we have a state, why aren't they home? We can eliminate the Hamas monsters later, we need to bring them home now.

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. What is Holocaust Remembrance Day for if we still abandon Jews to die at the hands of Nazis? Return the hostages, otherwise they will end up like Grandpa Bela. Dead Jews.