Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich responded to public anger over his statement that ‘forming the government with Mansour Abbas’ was more serious than ‘the October 7 massacre.’ He said: ‘The question I was asked and answered was what is the more serious political act. So yes, knowingly going into a government with Hamas while lying, deceiving and stealing votes is the most serious act Israeli politics has ever known.’ However, the question he was asked in the interview was ‘what is really more serious, forming the government with Mansour Abbas or the October 7 massacre and a cumulative 2,100 deaths?’
