{"id":426079,"date":"2026-05-05T06:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/426079\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T06:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:57:09","slug":"i-was-asked-what-is-the-more-serious-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/426079\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I was asked what is the more serious p"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich responded to public anger over his statement that &#8216;forming the government with Mansour Abbas&#8217; was more serious than &#8216;the October 7 massacre.&#8217; He said: &#8216;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.&#8217; However, the question he was asked in the interview was &#8216;what is really more serious, forming the government with Mansour Abbas or the October 7 massacre and a cumulative 2,100 deaths?&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich responded to public anger over his statement that &#8216;forming the government with Mansour Abbas&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-426079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}