Reminder: Geula Cohen on the difference between parents of hostages and
decision makers

When Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Tzahi Hanegbi
was a young paratrooper serving in what was still called Operation Peace for
Galilee - now known as the First Lebanon War - his mother, former MK Geula
Cohen, a right-wing hard-liner, was asked what she would do if her son were
taken prisoner.

Her reply: "As a mother, I would be outside the Prime Minister's Office with
a megaphone 24 hours a day calling on the government to do anything it took
to obtain his release. As a Knesset member, I would sit inside the PM's
Office and tell him not to listen to the people outside."

Liat Collins, The Jerusalem Post June 29, 2008
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/op-ed-contributors/pows-and-the-hostages-of
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