MK Avi Maoz, who heads the Noam party, issued a scathing condemnation of the current coalition on Wednesday, blasting its rejection of legislation introduced by opposition lawmaker MK Yulia Malinovsky of Yisrael Beytenu. The proposed law aimed to bar terrorists from receiving specialized medical care in Israel’s public hospitals.
Taking to his X account, Maoz brought attention to past instances in which terrorists were granted advanced medical procedures, pointing to Yahya Sinwar as a glaring example of what he called a deeply flawed system.
“In the current absurd reality, a terrorist injured in the leg received complex and lengthy surgery to save the limb instead of amputating it. Similarly, the arch-terrorist Yahya Sinwar, may his name and memory be erased, once received life-saving treatment when a tumor was removed from his head, instead of settling for simpler care.”
Maoz went on to denounce what he described as the coalition’s “dangerous mindset,” saying it reflected the same thinking that had led to the disastrous security lapse on October 7. “This is exactly the mindset the government is still stuck in, no different in essence from the concepts that senior security officials fed us over the years, about the need to assist the enemy with incentives, work permits, and various benefits, in the hope that this would reduce their motivation for terrorism. Concepts that blew up in our faces.”
He argued that Israel must completely revise its policy toward enemies of the state. “The disgrace of providing advanced medical treatment to a terrorist in a public hospital must stop. If we value life, it’s time we break free from these mindsets and start treating enemies as enemies, and under no circumstances as allies.”
Maoz noted that he backed the bill even though it originated from the opposition and reiterated that he would continue to vote in alignment with his moral compass, regardless of the political affiliation of the bill’s sponsor.
{Matzav.com Israel}