Right, so Bezalel Smotrich has looked back at the Hamas hostage story, the families, the people who never came home, the deals he fought, the war his government kept selling as “total victory,” and somehow arrived at the conclusion that what this whole thing really needed was a round of applause for Bezalel Smotrich.

Because of course it did.

Why have grief, negotiations, pressure, families camping outside government buildings, months of rage and fear, when you could have one far-right minister sitting in a studio going: actually, this was basically me.

A hostage story turned into a medal ceremony. For him.

But the problem with trying to wear a national trauma as jewellery is that sometimes the people most closely attached to that trauma, the families of those killed, are still around. Still angry. Still bereaved and aggri ...