Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich revealed in a podcast interview that he considered resigning after the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, onslaught but decided to hold off after giving it more thought and concluding that he did not do anything wrong.

“I thought about resigning — not right after October 7, but a little while afterward, when I tried to think about what I did that wasn’t right and I couldn’t find anything,” Smotrich said during an interview on the Geekonomy podcast on Tuesday.

Smotrich said for the first two months after the war broke out he worked “like a robot on autopilot.” But then, he said that when he had a moment, he got a stomach ache when he thought, “Wow, this happened on my watch. The worst massacre that happened to the Jewish people since the Holocaust happened under my watch. And I am trying to think what I did wrong,” he added.

Smotrich went on to say that he protested against the Oslo Accords as a child, appearing to suggest that the peace process with the Palestinians in the 1990s was connected to the Hamas attack three decades later.

He added that he also demonstrated against Israel’s 2005 withdrawal from Gaza and was jailed for three weeks after authorities pulled him over with 700 liters of gasoline. While the Shin Bet suspected that he was........

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