Six Jewish hostages were murdered by Hamas last week just before the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) reached them, and a controversy has erupted in Israel about whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should have done more to save them. But only among the ignorant and the credulous, because everybody else knew he never intended to save them.
If your child is kidnapped and you get a ransom note, do you
(A) pay the ransom if you can possibly raise the money, informing the police...