Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: If a war ends on the same lines where it began, what price did the enemy pay? What would deter him from fighting again? The dead don’t interest them. You can say, "We killed 50,000 terrorists in Gaza" — it doesn’t interest them. They aren’t like us, where the sanctity of life has value. In my view, the basic principle is this: if you start a war against me, if you win, you gain. If you lose, you lose territory.